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TIL of ship breakers of Bangladesh. Thousands of workers tear down giant ships with their bare hands for a few dollars a day. Everyday many are killed and maimed.

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nWnVd TIL that in 1999 a Qantas 747 "crashed" on landing and then Qantas paid a huge amount of money to repair the plane so it wouldn't be reported as a hull loss accident.
EgE7V TIL Oppenheimer's loss of his security clearance happened 1 day before it was set to expire anyway.
K5OQ TIL Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park, threatened to pull a Dave Chappelle by showing Comedy Central’s head of network a plane ticket to Africa because one of their episodes were censored against their will
M7GAa TIL Sweat is basically filtered blood.
LkPPP TIL: Photos of an old stone cottage built between two gigantic boulders --images dismissed as a Photoshopped internet hoax shortly after appearing-- actually depict a real structure. The Boulder House stands at coords 41.488176, -8.067814