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TIL that Riga built a community for blind people
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TIL of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash, where the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane into a mountainside after locking the captain out of the cockpit. The co-pilot had hidden the fact his doctor had been treating him for suicidal tendencies and declared him "unfit to work". 150 people died.
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TIL that as a consequence of HIV/AIDS, life expectancy in Swaziland has fallen from 61 years in 2000 to 32 years in 2009.
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TIL That There Are 100 Trillion Good Bacterias Living In Human Body
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TIL that Margaret Thatcher's son was heavily involved in financing an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea
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TIL: In the late 1700s, a French soldier named Tarrare was subject to medical experiments to test his eating capacity. He ate a meal for 15 people in one sitting, live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed an eel whole without chewing. He was ejected from the hospital after eating a baby.