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TIL Earth has lost half of its wildlife in the past 40 years
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TIL that only $2 was budgeted toward safety training for the crew of MV Sewol, the South Korean passenger ferry which sank in 2014 killing 306 people. This was used to pay for a paper certificate.
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TIL five men agreed to stand directly under an exploding nuclear bomb.. All of them walked away unscathed.
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TIL Japan has a sticker system for warning other drivers that the driver is inexperienced or elderly. Young drivers are designated with a “Shoshinsha” sticker, and elderly drivers are designated with a “Koreisha” sticker on their cars.
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TIL Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire created the first declaration of human rights and is honorably mentioned in the Bible, Jewish Bible (Tanakh), and Quran.
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TIL that in 1971 the Shah of Iran threw one of the most expensive parties in history, costing hundreds of millions of dollars. It was attended by nearly all royal families and presidents, and spared no expense. The over extravagance arguably led to the islamic revolution and ousted him from power.