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TIL thousands of stingray injuries are reported each year, but fewer than 20 cases of death have been recorded world wide since 1945.

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xVEZb TIL In 1911, Mexican Government killed over 300 chinese inmigrants in the city of Torreón, Coahuila. The event touched off a diplomatic crisis between China and Mexico. At one point it was rumored that China had even dispatched a warship to Mexican waters
b6ZGN TIL that the invention of bicycles was fundamental to the early women's liberation movement. Bicycles promised freedom to women long accustomed to relying on men for transportation. It was also the main reason corsets and long skirts fell out of fashion in the early 20th century.
GAWEj TIL in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts, there is a 120-year-old abandoned concert hall known as Steinert Hall that is 40 feet underground, buried beneath a piano store.
vdmD TIL Naoto Matsumura is the Most Radioactive Man on Earth. He continues to live alone in abandoned city Tomioka (affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster) to care for the animals left behind there.
7rowb TIL Hawaii tried to raise the smoking age to 100