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TIL that in 1970s, people in Cambodia were killed for being academics or for merely wearing eyeglasses.

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E8mV TIL the record for person who survived the highest fall without parachute was Vesna Vulovic. She was a Yugoslavian stewardess who survived 10,160 meters (33,000 feet) fall after her plane was bombed by Croatian terrorists
4XW0g TIL that Earnest Hemingway was a spy for the US against Cuba from 1942 through 1944
pAv4 TIL when Skylab fell back to Earth it rained debris on a small town in Australia. The town, Esperance, fined NASA $400 for littering
X5dD TIL In 1995, Nigeria donated 88 000 doses of meningitis vaccine to its neighbour Niger, but before the authorities realized that these vaccines were fake, about 60 000 people had been “inoculated” with what could just be water.
E1a5x TIL Portugal Cut Addiction Rates in Half by Connecting Drug Users With Communities Instead of Jailing Them