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TIL that Riga built a community for blind people

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wLWL8 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.
Ld5V TIL that as a consequence of HIV/AIDS, life expectancy in Swaziland has fallen from 61 years in 2000 to 32 years in 2009.
9AnQ TIL That There Are 100 Trillion Good Bacterias Living In Human Body
vP50j TIL that Margaret Thatcher's son was heavily involved in financing an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea
LPNV 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.