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TIL rescuers had to cut a (dead) woman in half with a chainsaw in order to amputate the leg of a young boy trapped in rubble of the collapsed I-880 overpass following the 1989 SF earthquake

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044M TIL La Rinconada, Peru the highest elevated city on earth has a goldmine where miners work for 30 days without pay. On the 31st day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry on their shoulders.
5Dm9 TIL: The first President of Zimbabwe was President Banana. A law was passed forbidding citizens from making jokes about his name.
697gY TIL the famous Guy Fawkes mask is owned by Warner Brothers and they are paid a fee with the sale of each official mask.
dZgK TIL you’re nearly 300 times more likely to be a victim of homicide in new Orleans as you are in Hong Kong.
1jQW TIL a Royal Navy diver, also working for MI6, disappeared on an inspection of a Soviet Navy cruiser. A body was found without head and hands soon after.