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TIL a lake in India catches fire because it’s so polluted.

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e5D5 TIL after several overburdened hospitals turned away a 22yo woman’s 4 Ebola-stricken family members, the Liberian woman fashioned protective equipment out of plastic garbage bags and treated them herself for 2 weeks. Three of the Four family members survived.
Aa0x TIL Starcraft was the first computer game to be played in space.
LkZpp TIL: A study on workplace murders was conducted in 2015. Women workers were 20x more likely to be killed by a domestic partner and 20% more likely to be killed by another coworker than men. However, men were more likely to be killed by robbers, escaped inmates, and customers.
BrLoW TIL that ants can easily survive being microwaved due to having a large body surface area to volume ratio and an ability to position themselves in between microwaves beams due to their small size.
6yeY TIL 22 Years Ago Today Russian Tanks Shelled the Russian Parliament