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TIL that Chinese prisoners are forced to farm World of Warcraft gold - there are thought to be 100,000 full-time gold farmers in the country.

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oXmE TIL that more than 80 percent of clinical data is “fabricated” in China according to China’s own food and drug regulator.
wLJD8 TIL to be "anal retentive" originally referred to someone who took pleasure in retaining their feces
Lkr70 TIL China began efforts to its first manned space flight in 1968 and accomplished the goal in 2003 with Shenzhou 5. The design of Shenzhou resembles the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The Chinese spacecraft is, however, larger than Soyuz and is an all new construction
xeXw TIL Glen Howerton (Dennis from Its Always Sunny in Philidelphi) is fluent in Mandarin, Spanish, and Korean (and English).
a6VL TIL the number 42 was the random seed chosen to generate the universe in EVE Online