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l6YG TIL An eight year old boy in India is the worlds youngest known serial killer
5YlxB TIL Cincinnati has a fully-built, but never used subway system from the 1920s complete with over 2 miles of tunnels and untouched stations nearly a century old. There was an attempt to convert it to a light rail system in 2002 by raising taxes half-a-cent for the residents, but voters shot it down.
Oo9a6 TIL about Chai Ling, a student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. She advocated to continue protesting until a bloodshed would change China, but when interviewed before the incident about whether she herself would attend the protests, she answered no, cause she wanted to live.
nW0gY TIL there have been 3 major bubonic plague pandemics: Justinian's Plague in the 6th century, the Black Death, and, most recently, the third plague pandemic in the late 19th century which killed an estimated 10 million in India, 2 million in China, and up to 3 million elsewhere.
p8GYN TIL that in 2014, Singapore's anti gambling agency, in a bid to leverage the world cup fever, published an advert that showed a worried kid telling his friend that his father had bet all their savings on Germany winning the world cup. Germany won.