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TIL that in Beijing cars with odd and even licence plates will be banned from the city’s roads on alternate days whenever serious air pollution persists for three consecutive days

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OxG4 TIL that Jesse Owens was the 10th child in a poor family. The day after his 5th birthday he developed a large fibrous bump on his chest. As they couldn’t afford a doctor, his mother used a sterilized kitchen knife to carve into his chest and remove a golf-ball sized growth.
KY6jJ TIL in 2016 a group of Australian high school students made a key ingredient of the malaria medicine Daraprim (sold in the US for $US35,000 to $US110,000) for $US20
VGN0 TIL When a skull was found in a peat marsh in Cheshire, police questioned Peter Reyn-Bardt about it in connection to his missing wife and he confessed to her murder. The skull was radiocarbon dated and found to be almost 2000 years old. Peter was convicted based on his confession.
ymkM TIL that the movie The Departed was a remake of the Hong-Kong crime thriller Infernal Affairs, and was very loyal to the source material.
W7ZKA TIL Tania Head faked being a 9/11 survivor and led a survivors' group. She also faked her suicide after getting caught