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TIL that a local guide in Odessa, Ukraine has started breeding fish in the compact underground pool of the city’s catacombs.

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x6JYB TIL that Only 20 players in Major League Baseball history have worn the uniform number 69, the first in 1989. Eight of them played for Pittsburgh at the time.
Pk1V TIL the hip-hop artist MF Grimm was expelled from his high school for assauting the school dean… because the dean owed him drug money.
neZeB TIL Led Zeppelin knowingly copied the song "You Need Love" in "Whole Lotta Love", but the band considered it "so far away in time and influence" that they decided they could just get away with plagiarism.
j68vX TIL that Asbestos' health hazard are not caused chemically, but mechanically. Asbestos fibers are so small that they pierce cell walls without killing the cell. Fibers cause mutations by piercing the mitotic spindle, which disrupts mitosis & causes chromosomal damage responsible for the ill effects.
lMyN TIL of Bishnu Shrestha, a retired Gurkha soldier, who was aboard a train attacked by a group of 40 thieves. When the thieves attempted to rape a passenger next to him, he pulled out his khukuri, proceeding to kill three of the attackers and injuring 8 more before the rest fled.