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TIL during WWII, prisoners in a Russian gulag escaped into the Siberian wilderness, walked hundreds of kilometers through blinding snow to Lake Baikal, crossed the Mongolian border, traversed the Gobi desert and hiked across the Himalayas to reach freedom in India. 4000 km… entirely on foot.

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R58J4 TIL Christine Maggiore founded the HIV/AIDS denialism group Alive and Well. Maggiore herself then died of aids in 2008.
GZmg TIL in “Team America”, originally, Matt Damon was going to be portrayed as intelligent and articulate, but when they saw the puppet, they noted that it made him “look retarded” and decided to portray him as such.
ey6D TIL 6 of the 20 Salem Witch Trials victims were men.
rNyOW TIL the most dangerous ant in the world is the bulldog ant (Myrmecia pyriformis) in Australia. In attack it uses its sting and jaws simultaneously. There have been at least three human fatalities since 1936, the latest a Victorian farmer in 1988
kwWm TIL That in 1850 only 8% of the people in California were women