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TIL 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded

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neolG TIL about the alive and well easter tradition in slovakia for men to get day drunk, throw buckets of water on women, and spank them with willow whips.
rNdxw TIL that during the first moon landing, according to the schedule, the astronauts were SUPPOSED to sleep for a few hours first, keeping the entire world waiting, but they could not sleep and asked to go ahead of schedule and leave the lander early.
Z8Roa TIL in the 1880s, some coffins were equipped with shotguns and explosive devices (“Coffin Torpedos”) to deter grave robbers.
K09w TIL there is an eye shadow called “Nic Cage Raking Leaves on a Brisk October Afternoon”
1Z1W TIL In 1951 a poor woman named Henrietta Lacks donated her cells to science without knowing it. Her cells would be the first “immortal cells” that could be kept alive for medical use. They’ve been used for everything from creating the polio vaccine to cloning.