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TIL that there are more than twice as many Mongols in China than there are in Mongolia

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dry9 TIL the real crew on the Captain Phillips ship say that he is a fraud, he endangered them, the film is a lie, and they’ve sued for “willful, wanton and conscious disregard for their safety”.
Br8Qr TIL in 2000, an Atlanta area sheriff ordered a hit on a rival that defeated him in an election. The hit was carried out by two deputies who were promised promotions.
0wmER TIL Christopher Columbus used a book of astronomical tables when the next lunar eclipse would take place and use it to warn the indigenous people in Jamaica to treat his crew better or else the moon would rise red. Lunar eclipse happened, and they pleaded Columbus to restore the moon.
Z8LM4 TIL that there once existed a Rock Paper Scissors tournament in USA
16Kk8 TIL that the longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years. Charles Osborne, from the USA, hiccuped continuously from 1922 to 1990, totaling over 430 million hiccups.