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TIL that the US National Archives has banned the search term wikileaks.

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0LKy TIL After the Amish schoolhouse shooting by Charles Roberts in 2006, members of the Amish community attended the shooter’s funeral in a show of forgiveness.
ADEk4 TIL Landing humans on the Moon required the most sudden burst of technological creativity and the largest commitment of resources ever made by any nation in peacetime. At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities.
wLyxo TIL Axolotl never grow up! Axolotl have a trait called Neoteny, which means they will never become an adult Salamander. Despite not being able to metamorphosis into an adult, they reach sexual maturity while still holding onto many of the characteristics of larvae.
LQgeQ TIL the length of the great wall of China is 21,196 km, earth’s circumference is 40,075 km. so Great Wall of China goes half way around the world if it was in a straight line
LQV7Q TIL about Avoidance Speech, a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives