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TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m

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0wKXA TIL that Poe's Masque of the Red Death was inspired by a masquerade ball held in Paris during the height of a global cholera epidemic. Over 2000 attended, including a man dressed as the Personification of Cholera.
p868Z TIL that as a colonel in the US Army, Theodore Roosevelt drafted a letter to the Army Headquarters to appeal for his disease-stricken corps to be withdrawn from Cuba. The administration was outraged, but complied after the letter had leaked to the press and turned public opinion.
Akw4 TIL There is a woman running for president in Afghanistan in the 2014 elections.
Oo9rR Til the Great Chinese Famine had more deaths in areas at produced more food per capita. Nancy Qian and Pierre Yared showed that aggregate production was sufficient for avoiding famine and that the famine was caused by over-procurement and poor distribution by the government
E1xQp TIL that North Korea has a VHS copy of Space Jam enshrined in a musuem