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TIL about a map of underwater cables

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DP1p TIL a Nepalese farmer named Mohammed Salmodin was bitten by a cobra and bit the cobra back. The cobra died and he walked out alive.
DQPpe TIL Ethan Zuckerman, the man who created pop-up ads, has said sorry to the world for inventing one of the most detested forms of online advertising.
dD0LZ TIL of the founder of the Majapahit Empire, Raden Wijaya who used a Mongol army that had originally sailed to Indonesia to invade his father's kingdom to defeat rebels that had deposed and killed his father. He would then destroy the weakened Mongol force and become independent
RoA8 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated after high levels of dioxin was discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
neenb TIL that a 28-hour killing spree was stopped by Joseph Lozito. After the killer's arrest, the police left Lozito in the subway to bleed. Lozito later sued the police and took it to Supreme Court which both ruled that the police had no duty to protect its citizens.