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TIL in the 2009 Philippines floods a teenager named Muelmar Magallanes saved 30 lives. After leaping into the rushing waters to save his family from danger, he repeatedly jumped back in to save others, including a trapped mother and baby, until too tired to fight the current he was swept away.

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j6o7R TIL about the Alipore Central Jail, a prison in Kolkata, India where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It is no longer operational as a jail. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed here.
JYZJk TIL there exists a separate time zone on the moon. It’s called Lunar Standard Time (LST) and the calendar started on July 21st, 1969 at 02:56:15 UT, the moment Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.
9EPr TIL that Weezer’s first gig was opening for Keanu Reeves’ band Dogstar in 1992
Rwpw TIL Americans are over-diagnosed and over-treated for depression, according to a study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
DmYg TIL Bill Nye and his neighbour, Arrested Development star Ed Begley Jr., are in an ongoing competition to see who can have the “lowest carbon footprint”