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TIL Kiribati weightlifter Meamea Thomas, was killed in 2013 while trying to save a bicycle rider about to be hit by a speeding car which was drunk driving.

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QR8a TIL Sanal Edamuruku against whom the Mumbai Catholic Church filed a blasphemy case in 2012 for exposing the science behind a miracle has been in Finland since then since he faces indefinite jailtime under blasphemy laws in India for this act
R8y6 TIL The City of London, with a population of just over 7,000 residents, is one of the smallest cities in the U.K. The administrative district of Greater London, while technically not a city, is home to 8.3 million residents and is large enough to fit over 4 New Yorks and almost 50 Paris’s.
O9n4 TIL there is an animal that looks like a gremlin with a “long, bony, witch-like middle finger” called an Aye Aye. These gentle, harmless animals are killed due to local superstition that aye-ayes are harbingers of death, and if an aye-aye points its middle finger at you, it’s a death sentence.
AAv7 TIL that two men in Louisiana (Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace) have been held in solitary confinement for the last 40 years.
5Vdxr TIL: One of the largest cult suicides in history happened a few months ago. Over 400 confirmed deaths with 600 reported missing.