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TIL that more than 900 workers have already died building Qatar’s World Cup infrastructure. The International Trade Union Confederation says that if conditions don’t improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off.

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kJpQ1 TIL Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly killed by Japan's top fighter ace
wkxM TIL in 2008 a California nuclear plant was taken offline due to “a rapid influx of jellyfish”
XEldr TIL during the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indi holds up the Nazis with a rocket launcher, an actor appears to swallow a fly during dialog but it actually flew away. Steven Spielberg noticed it and decided it would be funny to cut out a few frames so the fly would not be seen flying away.
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oyyA TIL during the Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet losses were so great that at times the life expectancy of a newly arrived soldier was less than a day, and the life expectancy of a Soviet officer was three days. Combat was so fierce, at one point a railway station changed hands 14 times in six hours.