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TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”

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5Gg9 TIL Helium is a non-renewable resource, the US used to stockpile it, and we may run out eventually
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