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TIL wealthy Chinese criminals occasionally hire look-a-likes to serve their prison sentence

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PYNV TIL that between 1911 and 1994, tigers killed 16,152 people in India
OGM4a TIL that the US (22% of the UN budget), China (12.005%), Japan (8.564%) and Germany (6.090%) – together finance some 49% of the entire UN budget.
RRG1 TIL that it took Rubik a month to solve his own creation (“Who Created the Rubik’s Cube?” Paragraph 3)
J1y41 TIL That back in 1739, measurements of the Earth were made that were so accurate, modern measurements of the circumference only differ by less than 8km. 40,000km -> 40,007.863km
0AKL TIL there is evidence of Methane based life on Titan, a moon of Saturn.