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TIL: In 2011 drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to death like gladiators. The winners were sent on suicide missions

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QGgd TIL One million seconds is a little over 11 days and one billion seconds is over 31 years.
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