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TIL The Great Wall of China isn’t really visible from space - it’s just a myth.

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E18ap TIL A young Chinese woman ran away to Beijing to avoid a planned marriage, but was followed by her fiance. After she became pregnant, her fiance abandoned her at a hotel and she narrowly avoided being sold to a brothel. A newspaper editor saved her and she wrote several novels before dying at 30
698PX TIL that the symbol for Atheism is a diagram of an atom and members of the US military can have it put on their gravestones
Brrgx TIL that a janitor from Chicago wrote over six years a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript with over 300 watercolor illustrations called “In the Realms of the Unreal”, which was only discovered after his death.
e0mjk TIL that in November 2000, Japan passed their first anti-stalking law after a 21 year old student was murdered by her stalker the previous year. She had been turned away multiple times by the police who denied and falsely portrayed her as a promiscuous flirt on the media.
GVlj TIL: Gamers in Antarctica have used 137.4MB of Steam’s bandwidth.