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TIL that Jamaica is the most homophobic place on earth

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GYXaE TIL that in 2009 there was a race between an ISP and a carrier pidgeon to transport 4GB of data, the pidgeon won transporting the data in a little over an hour while the ISP only transferred 4% of the data.
XE8D6 TIL of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was murdered in 1982 by two laid-off auto workers. Blaming the increasing popularity of Japanese cars in America for their redundancy, and the US' auto industry struggles, the men assumed Chin was Japanese, and beat him to death in a nightclub.
ANPKn TIL that two time Nobel prize winner Marie Curie was buried in a lead lined coffin, all of her belongings are stored in lead lined boxes and will be radioactive for 1500 years.
N77AN TIL the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century was the 1976 Tangshan quake, killing approx. 250'000 people
XE4NX TIL there is a freshwater parasite called Naegleria fowleri that can enter your brain through your nasal cavity while swimming in freshwater lakes/poorly sanitized pools. The parasite destroys human brain tissue and is over 97% fatal within days.