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TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843

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X07pk TIL Beyond Good and Evil 2 has broken the record for longest game development time, at almost 16 years
XlnX TIL that hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of Chinese have been detained in labour camps or prisons since 1999 where they are subject to abuse, torture, and organ harvesting because they practice Falun Gong
e0156 TIL that in 2014, China banned puns, saying that they create "cultural and linguistic chaos"
R7JG6 TIL of the Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger", which means that people will accept absurd information, as long as enough people are saying it.
Z8PmY TIL about Elizabeth Sugrue, Irelands only female executioner. Sentenced to death, she volunteered to hang the other prisoners in exchange for her life, as the local hangman was ill on that day. Her offer was accepted, and she was kept for the job.