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Today I learned that the Jews found refuge in China during the Second World War.

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OoYR4 TIL of Heart Attack Grill, a Las Vegas restaurant where people over 350 lbs. eat free. 3 people have died while eating there, and the only vegan option on their menu is cigarettes.
rRNGM Frozen in time, Franz Josef Land is one of the last lingering remnants of the truly wild Arctic. The remote and nearly uninhabited 192-island archipelago is renowned for its biodiversity, which includes polar bears, walruses, bowhead whales, belugas, and narwhals. The intensifying impact of climate change, however, nearly turned this serene environment deadly for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and his crew.
byA9 TIL an 80 year old woman was killed in a Brazilian clinic when a student nurse accidentally administered coffee and milk through her IV line.
Brnme TIL that Prisons in Brazil reduce their sentences by 4 days for each book an inmate reads and writes a report on
OG9rg TIL of the Beneš decrees, laws which allow Slovakia to steal property from its ethnic Hungarians. The post-WWII era laws came from the former Czechoslovakia, where it was used to take property and citizenship away from ethnic Germans and Hungarians, and subject them to forced labor.