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TIL that rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.

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OoKn6 TIL some streets in Old San Juan, PR are paved with blue cobblestones, called adoquines, and were made from the waste, or slag, that resulted from iron smelting, then cast into blocks and brought to the island as ballasts in the bottoms of 18th-century Spanish ships.
78ZPx TIL that the horror cliché of zombies eating brains dates back to the 1985 horror-comedy film “Return of the Living Dead”, in which the zombies didn’t eat brains out of hunger, but instead because it eased the "pain" of being a zombie.
LkWNr TIL- Dr Allan Zarkin was so proud of the caesarian section he performed, he carved his initials onto his patient's abdomen. She sued the hospital for $5.5m
rEw TIL there have been more than 2000 nuclear explosions worldwide. This is a time-lapse video of every detonation since 1945.
x6Jkg TIL that North and South Korean judokas teamed up to compete as the Unified Korean team at 2018 World Judo Championships, winning a historic bronze medal in the co-ed team vs. team competition