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TIL about Wang Enlin, a Chinese farmer who self-taught law to sue a chemical company for polluting his village—and won.

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MvO0 TIL of Belphegor’s prime. A 31-digit, palindromic prime number named after the prince of Hell responsible for ingenious inventions: 1,000,000,000,000,066,600,000,000,000,001.
VMeLm TIL Pain tolerance is reduced by sleep deprivation.
Z87R4 TIL critics complained Indian artist Daler Mehndi of being popular only because he featured beautiful dancing women in his music videos. Mehndi’s response was to create a music video that featured only himself. So that’s how the popular music video “Tunak Tunak Tun” was born.
MNP0 TIL The Ovitz family were a family of Dwarfs who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp. They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family to enter Auschwitz and to survive intact.
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