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Ooe07 TIL in 1880 a guy built a 200ft 14 storey tower made out of concrete with no steel reinforcement. It’s still standing today, 140 years later, and is the tallest non-reinforced concrete structure in the world. It was designed as his mausoleum.
GYBe4 TIL before his murder, James Fannin made three requests: he asked for his personal possessions to be sent to his family, to be shot in his heart and not his face, and to be given a Christian burial. The Mexican soldiers took his belongings, shot him in the face, and burned Fannin's body.
Z474 TIL Venezuela’s prisons are so bad, that the inmates hold gladiatorial matches to settle disputes (Also, in that country, a person is murdered every 21 minutes. And in the last 15 years, there has been upwards of 200,000 murders)
VRgm TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
9dQX TIL: We have Motion-induced blindness (just stare at the dot in the middle for 10 sec)