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TIL that a trishaw puller in China, Bai Fang Li financed the education of over 300 poor kids, over the years the distance he peddled to sponsor the kids was close to 18 times around the equator. When he died thousands came to say goodbye.

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6EYkw TIL about Thomas Norris, a Navy SEAL who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing two pilots during the Vietnam war. On a subsequent mission he was shot in the head and left for dead, but fellow SEAL Michael Thornton dragged him to a boat offshore and saved him. Thornton won the Medal of Honor.
4w8g TIL that London has so many trees that it can be classified as a forest
mxWPy TIL of the Bodo League Massacre. A genocide personally witnessed by the American Armed Forces and carried out by the South Korean Military. Around 200,000 people ended up dead. The British Armed Forces were able to successfully save many of the citizens that had been 'marked for death'.
Lk7Am TIL the HMAS Melbourne was initially sold for scrapping, however China bought the rights to scrap and instead fully documented and analyzed the designs for their own carrier program. Decommissioned in 1982, reports suggest it was not scrapped until 2002, having been used for training in those years.
PYMDO TIL Fritz Bauer, a jew and Germany's first post-war Federal Attorney was essential in building up a democratic Germany. He prosecuted former nazis but got threats from his own work colleagues and his superiors. He was found dead in 1968 and cremated immediately without autopsy against court orders.