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TIL In order to link their stone age village to the outside world, 13 Chinese villagers carved their way through a mountain. Today, that tunnel is a tourist attraction

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neyBd TIL 75% and 85% of people in Canada gamble in some form, whether it be charitable gambling or online poker, or any number of other options. Participation in some provinces, like Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan, is higher than in other places.
VnQ4 TIL a bag of Skittles contains fifty percent of your daily recommended vitamin C.
e0lYJ TIL well over half of all know Egytian obelisks were plundered over the millennia. Most were taken by the Romans, who moved 13 to Italy, with 8 in Rome alone.
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.
pNnN TIL Bishop Rock is a tiny island 4 miles off the coast of Cornwall, and its single lighthouse makes it the “world’s smallest island with a building on it”