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TIL two sisters know as the Gibbons twins were so inseparable they had a coded language & committed crimes together, oh, and repeatedly tried to murder each other.

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OGxWL TIL Senna remains a national hero in Brazil. His grave attracts more visitors than the graves of John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley combined.
1Mlr TIL nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar.
VMlXQ TIL about the "sponge cities" in China. The scheme means that Wuhan and other areas in the scheme will have 20% of their urban land include "sponge features" (such as rain gardens and wetlands) by 2020 with an aim of retaining 70% of storm and flood water.
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Brpjr TIL there was a black samurai who served under the daimyō Oda Nobunaga who praised him for his strength and was given his own residence and a short, ceremonial katana by Nobunaga. When they first met, Nobunaga suspected his skin was covered in ink and had his skin scrubbed.