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TIL a World of Warcraft player had 36 accounts on 11 computers simultaneously and raided by himself

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NX4eJ TIL about Li Xouying, who lived through the Massacre of Nanking. While 7 months pregnant, she fought off three Japanese soldiers who stabbed her 37 times; she survived and went on to advocate for the victims.
v1ojr TIL After a bite from the inland taipan, your muscles start to dissolve into your blood. A typical cause of death is then kidney failure because they can not handle processing all the dissolved muscle tissue.
yaPv TIL that allowing her flight attendants to wear bikinis to work has made an airline CEO in Vietnam that country’s first female billionaire
awpb TIL If Manhattan had as many people per square mile as Alaska, there would be 14 people in Manhattan.
J1ykv TIL that our DNA is full of genes that no longer work. Called pseudogenes, many have "good" versions in other species. For example GULO allows most animals to make their own vitamin C. Our version is GULOP, and is broken. Freakily, there are about as many pseudogenes as working genes in human DNA.