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TIL former NBA champion Bison Dele was (probably) murdered by his brother

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EOOX TIL: China has a National Pole Dancing Team.
xV1kk TIL that after the disaster of ‘The Coconut Grove’ fire in 1942, where in a mad panic to escape the fire people were crushed against the inward opening doors and could not pull them open, all public buildings had to have doors which opened outward
R7GE9 TIL that, right now, 9 languages a year, or one every 40 days, goes extinct and soon we will be losing our linguistic heritage at the rate of 26 languages each year—one every two weeks.
OG91e TIL that the Tsaatan people of northern Mongolia are one of the last remaining nomadic reindeer herding cultures, living in harmony with their reindeer in the taiga forests.
JZB8 TIL that the ‘fuel efficiency’ of walking is roughly equivalent to 360 miles per gallon.