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TIL that pregnant women in Cambodia are on occasion killed for their unborned fetus

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E1dK0 TIL that pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried with a dagger from space. The dagger was forged from meteorite, proving early metal - working in egypt.
69NVQ TIL A zettabyte is enough storage for 30 billion 4K movies, or 60 billion video games, or 7.5 trillion MP3 songs. Current estimates predict the world will produce 175 zettabytes of data a year by 2025.
eQv4 TIL a Texas dad engaged in a 3-hour armed standoff with police while trying to prevent doctors from pulling the plug on his brain-dead son. The son eventually came out of his coma and recovered. Dad was charged for the incident, but the charges were later reduced.
jNoYQ TIL that famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev escaped Soviet Russia to freedom only to be diagnosed with AIDS a few years later, he swore to fight the disease defiantly: "AIDS is not going to fuck me, I'm going to fuck AIDS.”
yVN0X TIL: In 1967, Mad Magazine printed a fake $3 bill. Unfortunately, change machines were just beginning to be installed and did not recognize the bills as fake and gave out real change for the phony bills.