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TIL The Chinese government “encouraged” the country’s tallest female basketball player to marry the country’s tallest man. Their child was Yao Ming.

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wLAgo TIL that installing air filters in classrooms have surprisingly significant educational benefits. A few months of air filtering dramatically improves test scores.
69o5W TIL A garment factory in Bangladesh used by multiple large corporations collapsed, killing 1134 workers. Walmart, Carrefour, Bonmarché, Benetton, Mango, Auchan and Kik refused to pay compensation to their families.
6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.
6LWW TIL the world’s first supermodel, Evelyn Nesbit, inspired her coal baron husband to shoot another man at a performance at Madison Square Garden. The trial was so full of shocking details about her relationships that a church group lobbied for a publication ban, and the jury had to be sequestered.
R7NPa TIL that Adam Savage admitted he was mistaken, and that credit card companies had nothing to do with Myhtbusters not airing an episode on RFID chips