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TIL that in 1995 authorities of the People’s Republic of China abducted the 6 year old Panchen Lama of Tibet,Gedhun Choekyi Nyima. He has not been seen or heard from since.

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rRl9x TIL : A Chinese mining company and the Afghan government is going to destroy Mes Anyak, a 5,000 year-old Bronze age site and 2,000 year-old Buddhist Silk Road city.
v1r8D TIL in 2012, UK radio station Jazz FM accidentally broadcast 5 minutes of pornographic material after a engineer plugged in a laptop to the output and opened a personal email. The station was not fined by the regulator Ofcom.
XEWm6 TIL that raw red kidney beans are toxic. Three to four raw red kidney beans are sufficient to cause food poisoning-like symptoms.
N7Py6 TIL Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas were refused government aid unless they pledged to never to boycott Israel.
jNV4R TIL that the Pantheon in Rome was built in 126 AD and was the Largest dome in the world for more than 1,755 years until 1881 and is still the largest un-reinforced solid concrete dome in the world today.