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The oldest bridge in the world still in use is Arkadiko Bridge, built around 1300-1200 BC
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TIL Artic tern is the furtherest migrating bird in the world. If flies from Antarctica to Norway to its breeding grounds for 90,000km.
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TIL Tupac Shakur stopped to break up an altercation and ended up shooting two police officers. One in the leg and one in the buttocks.
The charges on him were dropped after it was discovered the officers were intoxicated and had stolen weapons from the police evidence room.
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TIL In Japan gambling is illegal, the way they get around the law is to give out prizes instead of cash, which the winner can then sell back for cash.
Pachinko (パチンコ?) is a mechanical game originating in Japan and is used as both a form of recreational arcade game and much more frequently as a gambling device, filling a Japanese gambling niche comparable to that of the slot machine in Western gaming.
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TIL Pokemon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
Interesting facts about south park.
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TIL that the widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead end staircases to confuse the ghosts killed by the gun.
The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California which was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester.
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Spacecraft heads for Pluto, taking along its discoverer's ashes
THE first space mission to Pluto contains an unusual piece of cargo: ashes from the cremated remains of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered the outermost planet in 1930.
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The First US City Was Full of Immigrants
A sprawling city in the heartland of the United States was a cultural melting pot hundreds of years before Europeans ever set foot on the continent.
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TIL a bite from a grizzly bear can crush a bowling ball
The grizzly bear (Ursus arctos ssp.) is any North American subspecies of the brown bear, such as the mainland grizzly (U. a. horribilis), the Kodiak (U. a. middendorffi), the peninsular grizzly (U. a. gyas) and the recently extinct California grizzly (U. a. californicus).
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TIL purple cloth was rare in medieval Europe partially because blue and red dyes were made by separate guilds
Purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.[1][2] The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as a deep, rich shade between crimson and violet.[3]
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South Korea ranks 3rd in global suicide rates, and the biggest cause for youths? Bad scores related to an extremely difficult exam.
South Korea came to a grinding halt on Thursday morning as 650,000 high school seniors prepared to take the most important exam of their lives.
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In 1989, Trump paid $85,000 for an ad pushing death penalty for 14 year old boy who was later exonerated of the crime. Trump refuses to apologize.
Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news.
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How to fold like a sailor
How to Fold 24 different things like a sailor.
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