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TIL about Li Xouying, who lived through the Massacre of Nanking. While 7 months pregnant, she fought off three Japanese soldiers who stabbed her 37 times; she survived and went on to advocate for the victims.

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M7M0B TIL that in 1930, the 22 million pound Indiana Bell building was shifted 52 feet (16 m) south, rotated 90 degrees, and then shifted again 100 feet (30 m) west. The services they provided for telephone, water, sewage, gas, and electricity were all unaffected. The 600 employees inside felt nothing.
e956 TIL switching to a national electricity grid instead of 130 regional grids would save $47 billion yearly and make utilization of solar energy more efficient
V7r4 TIL That in India there is a precariously balanced boulder on the edge of a slope named “Krishna’s Butter Ball”.
JXAv TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains
awdOL TIL that some DSLR cameras can clean their sensors by themselves.