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TIL In 2014, a three-year-old girl, Karina Chikitova, survived 11 days in the Siberian wilderness with only her dog for company. She ate wild berries and drank from a river, curling up next to her dog for warmth. She was saved when her dog went back to her village and guided rescuers to her.

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LkLPQ TIL that Ivory Coast built a church copied from the St. Peter's Basilica to surpass it as the highest church in the world. Upon completion the pope only agreed to consecrate it, if the overall height was lower than the Vatican Basilica and if there would be built a hospital next to it.
QNRBX TIL Hard Rock Cafes have one menu item named after a song, and that item is "One NIght in Bangkok Spicy Shrimp"
DeyV TIL: If you search Google maps for Yucca Flat Airport and zoom out, you can see dozens of nuclear bomb craters from underground testing
WNP9 TIL Mining train drivers in Australia paid as much as Surgeons in the US at $240k
6EXYX TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.