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TIL that China is allegedly engaged in mass organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience, with 41,500 unexplained organ donations.

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p8O98 TIL Michael Phelps' lungs can store twice as much oxygen compared to the average person
D1oGg TIL that it is a common misconception that one must wait 24 hours to file a missing persons report. Law enforcement agencies often stress that the case should be reported as early as possible
gMW84 TIL Jackie Chan once fled to the USA to avoid Hong Kong triads. He claims they once shot at him while he was getting off of a plane and that he later was surrounded by "more than 20 people ... with melon knives ... [I] confronted them with two guns and six grenades".
PYoGn TIL that wedding days often used to end with a "bedding ceremony" where friends and family watched the couple enter bed and, on occasion, witnessed their first sexual intercourse
7aPL TIL Isaac Asimov was such a prolific and wide ranging writer he had work published in all 10 major categories of the Dewey decimal system