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TIL that Nessie Dunbar was buried alive. At her funeral her sister wanted her dug up to say one last goodbye. When the body was Exhumed she sat up and looked at her sister. People thought she was a ghost or a zombie that returned from the dead.

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4XkeN TIL A large number of Chinese fled into North Korea in the 1880s due to drought and famine in their home provinces. Like their North Korean peers, Chinese children received free education in Chinese schools where they learned both Chinese and Korean
yVb5a TIL that Subbotnik is a day in Russia when people in many cities volunteer to clean the streets, a tradition that began after the Russian Revolution and persists today.
gGX7 TIL that the Pacific Ocean is so big it has its own antipodes (two points on exact opposite sides of the earth)
KYKjJ TIL that Joseph Pierce fought for the Union army during the American Civil War even through, he was born in China
b6ebp TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 320-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 30 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.