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TIL the high five was invented in 1977
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TIL Timothy McVeigh was a witness to the Waco massacre in 1993. Two years later, on the second anniversary of the last day of the Waco siege, McVeigh set off a bomb outside of a government building in Oklahoma, as an act against what he saw as a tyrannical government.
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TIL In China, Hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people are shackled or locked in cages at home because their families can't cope with their behavior.
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TIL that caterpillars literally melt down into a sac of fluid cells, which are used to create the entire body from scratch, forming a butterfly.
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TIL that only around 5% of Buddha’s teachings have been translated to modern languages; a global non-profit group named 84,000 aims to translate all of Buddha’s teachings to modern languages in order to combat the possible loss of this cultural heritage
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TIL Benjamin Franklin was an advocate of “air baths”, during which he would spend up to an hour reading or writing in his house completely nude.