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TIL: Town planning was an Olympic event up until 1948

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1BoP TIL a young Japanese boy named Yuuki saved many lives in his village warning people of an incoming tsunami. When they didn’t listen to him, he set fire to stacks of rice in order to panic them and get them up the mountain.
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ZpKY TIL that elephants can purr
wXNM TIL that acid in the 60s was so much stronger that you would have to eat 7.8 tabs of today’s acid to have a similar experience.
LQeEp TIL about the 1822 massacre on the Greek island of Chios by Ottoman empire troops that killed up to 50,000 people