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TIL that there are other photos of the Tiananmen Square tank man, showing the true size of the forces he stood up to as well as others fleeing in the foreground as he approaches the tanks.

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grm8D TIL there's a novel out of Canada where a woman falls in love with a bear (and yes they do it) "the best Canadian novel of all time.", "quintessential Canadian book", "Books That Make You Proud to Be a Canadian." and "spiritual gangrene... a Faustian compact with the Devil."
v1eM8 TIL that there was a conspiracy theory that Jimi Hendrix faked his death and became Morgan Freeman
wLP7J TIL that an Iraqi man slept through the invasion of his town after it was attacked by militants. He was the only person left behind the when the town was evacuated. He woke up, watched a movie and fiddled with his A/C, only noticing the takeover that evening. The militants left him alone.
XELM8 TIL Researchers have found that Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically distinct from any present-day population in the world. They compared the genetic profile of 170 Nunavik Inuit with "everyone possible" from Asians, Africans, and Europeans to North and South Americans
4kRZg TIL that a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, the universe had expanded and cooled enough for the first protons to form. It would take about 378,000 years for the first hydrogen atoms to form.