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TIL There is a maze of tunnels under Las Vegas and people live in them

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wLvkP TIL the Albanian government scammed its citizens multiple times with pyramid schemes, sparking civil war in 1997
GLoE TIL that because of prenatal scans and boys being the preferential gender in China. That in 20 years there will be 30-50 million men without wives in China.
v1lxK TIL the 2002 SARS virus also originated from cave dwelling bats, discovered through tracing by scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology.
jNdNa TIL the term "plastic surgery" was coined in 1839, 70 years before plastic was even invented. It comes from the Greek word "plastikē" which means "sculpting" and has nothing to do with plastic.
NXQRb Today I learned that the voice actress for Samara in the Mass Effect trilogy is the mother to Billie Eilish.