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TIL Lin Qi, founder of Yoozoo Games and producer of the 3 Body Problem, was poisoned with at least 5 different toxins by a coworker who was obsessed with Breaking Bad

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vPEPB TIL the longest medically verified amount of time that someone has spent sleeping, was 11 days by a 7 year old boy called Wyatt Shaw
GnZ5 TIL there was supposed to be a Black Taj Mahal opposite of the original, but was never fully built.
Y7Mnx TIL of Mrs Chippy, a ship's cat aboard the Endurance during Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition. After Shackleton drove the ship into an ice-locked position, stranding everyone on the ice, he ordered the cat and several dogs shot because they were "weak".
Agp4 TIL That in Alabama, one can use the phrase “Roll Tide” instead of “I do” as a wedding proposal
AN0Mo TIL that Republicans have won Alaska in all but one of the presidential elections it has participated in since it's admission to the Union, with the sole exception being when Lyndon Johnson carried the state in 1964. No state has voted for a Democratic presidential candidate fewer times.