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TIL a Chinese family refused to sell their house to the goverment to build a highway, so the government road was built right up to their walls.

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m1Rbp TIL when a Welsh assembly member asked his economy minister whether alien craft had been spotted over the skies of Cardiff his question was answered in Klingon
JwEk TIL The longest jail sentence handed down in the United States was 11,200 years, with charges ranging from rape, to kidnapping, larceny, and robbery.
l7BGa TIL that after The Washington Post was acquired in 2013, one of the proposed ideas was to install a feature that allowed a reader to remove the vowels from an article they didn't enjoy, the idea being that another reader would have to pay to reinstate the vowels.
Jv8v TIL that Chinese security forces killed a large number of Uyghur dissidents in a July 2014 incident, 96 according to the Chinese and 2,000 according to the Uyghurs, and the Chinese government suppressed any independent reporting of it
MegwB TIL that with so much time to devote, prison inmates are training service dogs for wounded veterans in only 1 year compared to the standard 2-5 years.