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TIL that the Yungas Road is a Bolivian road so dangerous it used to kill up to 300 drivers a year before a safer alternative was finished in 2006. It's only about 3 meters wide, prone to rockfalls, and has no guardrails even though it has cliffs over 600 meters high.

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eX6n TIL of Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian man who lost his family in a 2002 airliner collision. 2 years later Vitaly tracked down the air traffic controller responsible for the crash, murdered him in front of his family, served 3 years in prison, and then returned home to a hero’s welcome.
PY57J TIL that the reason I’ve never found Dela Soul’s older albums online (iTunes, Spotify, etc) is because their record company didn’t clear the labels appropriately. Seems to be a pattern here... at least they got paid.
160Wr TIL: Renegades Auberjonois was a Bonaparte
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p17b TIL Neil Degrasse Tyson has said that if China leaked a memo that they were building military bases on Mars, the U.S. would be there in 10 months.