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TIL a Chinese prostitute became a pirate with a fleet of 18,000 men, defeating the Chinese, British and Portuguese Navies before retiring to run a brothel and gambling den!

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VP1Q TIL a person from Niger is called a Nigerien, but a person from Nigeria is called a Nigerian.
M7JXb TIL of the Affair of the Dancing Lamas, where a filmmaker got in trouble with Tibetan authorities after they got offended at Tibetan lamas promoting his documentary with dances. It’s cited as a reason for Tibet receiving less reforms and why it was less prepared for the Chinese invasion of 1950.
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RAd7 TIL that it was a physician named John Snow who deduced that the cause of spread of Cholera in London in mid-nineteenth century, was contaminated water. His evidence included the 70 workers in the local brewery who only drank beer and all survived.