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TIL in 1556, the deadliest earthquake in recorded history struck Shensi province in China, killing about 830,000 people.

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NZo8 TIL Muhammad ratified a document giving Christians freedom to practice their faith without interference from Muslims.
0w4yA TIL of Béla Kiss, a Hungarian serial killer who killed and drank the blood of 24 people. He also pickled their corpses in alcohol and stored them in metal drums. He escaped arrest and was allegedly sighted in New York in 1932 working as a janitor.
69b7w TIL that there is a palaeontologist called David Schwimmer who was publishing papers throughout the time that Friends was airing
D1EdP TIL 19 Dutch prisons closed in 2013 due to lack of criminals. In 2016, Dutch prisons imported 240 prisoners from Norway just to keep their facilities full. Low incarceration is related to relaxed drug laws, rehabilitation over punishment, and ankle monitors which allow for re-entry into jobs.
xVNR0 TIL that Bikini atoll, the place where Bikini Bottom was named after, was declared a nuclear wasteland after the US dropped 23 bombs in the 1950s. However scientists have found thriving life in the center of it all, with evidence that life restarted a mere 10 years after the bombings.