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TIL Rich people in China often hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences.

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0wwe5 TIL that Carrie Fisher's ashes were placed in a giant Prozac pill urn
p8rNG TIL That after successfully ditching his Airbus A320 in the Hudson River in 2009, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger was granted lifetime membership in the Seaplane Pilots Association.
5VYeP TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”