› added 2 years ago

305

TIL In China more than 40 million people live in caves

Read more 2il.org

via reddit.com

LQWLZ TIL that “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” by Alvin & the Chipmunks was the only Christmas song to ever top the Billboard Hot 100 until Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” did so 61 years later.
aOk0 TIL that on August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a wave of concentrated carbon dioxide that killed around 1,800 people and thousands of animals almost instantaneously. One witness said, “On that day there were no flies on the dead. The flies were dead too.”
dGX8 TIL that non-violent attempts to escape Mexican prisons are not punished as ‘it’s human nature to want freedom’
neXnr TIL of Dr Richard Batista, who sued his wife to get back the kidney he donated to her, after she cheated on him.
QQWL TIL There is a chapel literally built on the inside of an ancient oak tree in France.