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TIL that the British war hero Admiral Nelson was taken back to England (from the Battle of Trafalgar) in a coffin made from the mast of a French ship he had sunk

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dM6K TIL that there is a large area over Brazil where the Earth’s magnetic field has weakened, it is so large that NASA powers down it’s satellites when passing over.
mxrwx TIL that under Chinese occupation (which killed 1.2 million people), the Tibetan language is banned in Tibet
naXB TIL a man with a dream to swim with whales, hid at Seaworld after closing. He tried to swim with the killer whale Tillikum, only to be killed by him. His parents then sued Seaworld claiming that the whale is wrongly portrayed as friendly because of the stuffed toys sold there.
b9GGN TIL of Héctor Castro(Uruguayan football player) who lost his arm in an accident at 13 and later went on to win Olympic Gold in 1928 and scored the decisive goal for his team in 1930 FIFA World Cup culminating his inspiring story.
O0x1 TIL Japan has the most vending machines in the world(5.52 million) which is more than the population of New Zealand.