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5Y8Xn TIL in the Philippines, the legal term for car-theft is "carnapping." This is because when cars used to be very rare in the country and were prized status-items, thieves would steal and hold them for ransom like in a kidnapping. Now the term is used for both car-theft and carjacking cases.
wLJOJ TIL 1/3 of the Filipino population have latent tuberculosis (TB) infection, and because of that inactivity, are not contagious.
05kM TIL the 2010 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Richard F. Heck died October 10 2015 after being refused treatment at a Manila private hospital because he had no money