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TIL that when a massive earthquake struck Nepal in April 2015, Nepal’s longest-serving “living goddess” Dhana Kumari was forced to break seclusion and walk the streets for the first time in her life.

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g8w8 Til that Roman Emperor Nero is the most decorated Olympian. With 1,808 wins.
nWdmP TIL that sustaining the filibuster in US political history has, at various times, involved: preparing a pee bucket, reading the phone book, reciting recipes, and in one most remarkable case, restraining Robert La Follette from hurling a brass spittoon at Joseph Robinson in 1917.
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eybL TIL that the sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 100 miles away