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TIL Wealthy Chinese Sometimes Hire Body Doubles To Serve Prison Sentences

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QJ9LM TIL about John Howard Griffin, who is best known for his project to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South of 1959 to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line.
A7dd TIL that a flight attendant survived falling 33,000 feet after her plane was destroyed by a bomb. It’s the longest anyone’s even fallen and lived.
4Xx4J TIL the largest lynching in US history resulted in 11 Italian Americans being killed
BlAy TIL a CT scan on the ancient statue of Buddha revealed a mummified monk.
9n7p TIL I learned of Matthias Sindelar, the “Mozart of football”. Widely considered one of the best players of the 1930s, he defiantly scored and celebrated a goal against Nazi Germany in a game meant to celebrate the Anschluss. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1939.