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TIL that we can’t taste as well at high altitude.

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9anr TIL Norway has a law titled “allemannsretten" which means “the right to roam,” nearly everywhere (outdoors) in Norway is accessible to the general public, as long as you pick up your garbage!
okZY TIL There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low in fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.
7rygL TIL of Fang Zheng, whose legs were run over by a tank during the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 while he was getting a fainted female student to safety. She refused to testify for him during the investigations and she would later claim that she was not with him during the incident.
wO4M TIL that Santos Rodriguez, a 12-year-old boy, was shot and killed by a Dallas police officer who tried using Russian roulette to make him confess to stealing $8 from a vending machine. The officer served only 2.5 years.
OpDe TIL that during WWII, a Polish Catholic social worker named Irena Sendlerowa saved 2,500 Jewish children from death. That’s more than the 1,200 saved by Oscar Schindler. She was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1965 as one of the Righteous Among Nations (a non-Jew who saved Jews during the Holocaust).