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TIL: In 2015, 17 people died and 497 were injured at a water park concert in New Taipei by being being burned alive. Concert organizers did a "color powder party", the cloud of colored cornstarch caught on fire after being fired into the crowd due to deflagration. The fire lasted only 40 seconds.

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Me0na TIL of Cliff Young, a 61-year-old farmer who won a 875-km ultramarathon wearing only farm boots and pants, and broke the previous record by two days.
Z8P74 TIL that Neff (2003) argued that compassion is our common humanity and that Gilbert and Choden (2014) say that because of this compassion isn’t unidirectional but it is a dynamic flow reflected in actions of love and kindness towards each other.
AR4a TIL The White Stripes were sued by a reporter for using a clip from one of her interviews in a song without permission. The case was settled out of court and the reporter is now listed on Wikipedia as an additional artist that played “the world’s smallest violin” in the song.
gMBb8 TIL of the 1937 Fox vault fire, in which 40,000 films were destroyed. 75% of all 20th Century Fox films from before 1930 were lost. There are actors for whom not a single copy of a single one of their films survive.
X0nbR TIL the submachinegun the Australian forces used during WW2 was designed by a 16 year old boy in 1931. During the gun's life, its reliability earned it the nickname "Digger's Darling" by Australian troops. It remained a standard weapon of the Australian Army until 1971.