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TIL Between 2012 and 2013, over 100 people have self-immolated in Tibet.

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0w1xj TIL that in response to a literal overflow of corpses in Parisian cemeteries in 1780, it took the city 12 years to move between 6 and 7 million bodies to its former underground mine quarries which became the city’s catacombs.
ZnOo TIL that the world’s largest brothel, with 500 rooms, was built in Seattle in 1910. It was so scandalous that the mayor lost his job, and the building became the ordinary Lester Apartments. It was destroyed 40 years later when an air force bomber crashed into it.
R0r4 TIL in 1963 Khrushchev was so moved from a JFK speech about world peace that he said “I want to make peace with that man”. 7 weeks later the the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed.
jNGQR TIL Men have nipples because we are all female until the Y chromosome kicks in.
e0lL6 TIL that Pangaea is only the most recent super-continent, and there have been at least 6 similar geological events termed “Wilson Cycles”