TIL about Khun Sa, a powerful Burmese drug lord, who was the main heroin producer 1976-1996 and had an army of up to 30k men. In 1988 he offered to sell his entire stock of heroin to Australian govern
TIL Kansas last elected a Democratic senator in 1932, and both seats have been occupied by Republicans since 1939, the longest current streak of one party controlling both of a state's Senate seats.
The Swedish warship Vasa sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea in 1628. In 1961 it was salvaged and the wood was still strong enough to be able to walk the decks. Today it is the world's best-preserved
TIL an estimated 1 in 60 adults in Fiji is now living with HIV, up from about 1 in 167 five years ago, and the government has now declared it a national emergency.
TIL that in Whittier, Alaska, nearly all of its roughly 270 residents live in a single 14-story building, "Begich Towers", which also houses the post office, grocery store, school, and church. The tow
TIL that British 1st Dragoon Guards cavalry unit still wears coat of arms of Holy Roman Emperor as their regimental badge because Emperor Franz Joseph was their Colonel-in-chief
TIL that Today’s Health Magazine publisher J.I. Rodale was on the Dick Cavett show. He told Cavett that he never felt better and that he decided to live to be one hundred. When Cavett was talking to h
A baby with a double cleft lip and palate shown before and after reconstructive surgery, a common but serious birth defect where the tissue of the upper lip and roof of the mouth doesn't fully join du
TIL Pan Am didn't have domestic routes within the US, it mostly operated international routes. The Civil Aeronautics Board banned the airline from establishing domestic routes. After deregulation in 1
TIL that the origin stories of characters such as Iron Man or the Punisher, which were previously tied to the Vietnam War, have now been retconned to take place during the Siancong War, a fictional co
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