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TIL Chinese students can get 7 years in jail for cheating on exams

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nereo TIL: "Tired and emotional" is a British euphemism for alcohol intoxication (or drunkenness).
eG1g TIL in 2007 the I-35W bridge in Minnesota collapsed with a school bus on the deck. As it fell, a truck driver swerved to give them an exit. It cost him his own life but saved over 50 children.
L4Qd TIL George Takei spent part of his childhood in an American internment camp.
ANpVx TIL Champignons de Paris (aka Button Mushrooms) were cultivated in the catacombs under Paris (where 6 million people were buried), where it was grown on horse manure
7rdWL TIL Brenton Tarrant, the man who live streamed the Christchurch mosque shooting and murdered 51 muslims tried to plead not guilty despite the fact that he was caught red handed.