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TIL, during the Norway 2011 shootings, an innocent teenager originally from Chechnya, Russia, was arrested and interrogated as a suspect because he did not react with the same level of tears and hysteria as the other survivors.

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aDLM TIL that Mother Teresa believed suffering brought people closer to Jesus and therefore withheld pain killers from her patients.
6eB8 TIL that there are 3 places in the world (all of them in Russia), in which the difference between record high and record low temperatures is higher than 100 degrees Celsius (or 180 degrees Fahrenheit)
nWJ4W TIL that in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster, only 1 person has died from radiation poisoning while the subsequent evacuation claimed the lives of 2,202 people.
NXZA1 TIL that CS 1.6 has a map called cs_italy2, huge surprise to me considering I was a fervent CS player and love the original map.
ADLV4 TIL Alexei Leonov, the first man to perform a spacewalk, almost wasn't able to get back in the capsule as his suit had expanded in the vacuum of space. Many problems plagued the mission including a poor landing 240mi off course forcing the 2 man crew to survive for 2 days in the freezing wilderness.