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TIL 40 million people in China live in caves.

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Vvvp TIL a British Gurkha soldier Dip Prasad Pun killed 30 Taliban single-handedly in Afghanistan
mo9v TIL Stephen Hawking held a party for time travelers, sent the invite out the day after, and no one showed up.
lEMA TIL Bayer Pharmaceutical knowingly shipped out HIV-tainted blood transfusions to Hemophiliacs in countries such as France, Spain and Japan during the 1980s. They eventually paid millions out in lawsuits but no Bayer executive was ever charged with a crime.
e0Zyb TIL Ernest Hemingway mocked the interpretation of Chekhov's gun in his short story "Fifty Grand" with an example of two characters that are introduced and then never again mentioned.
kbGd TIL “RMS Titanic” fired 8 emergency flares before sinking. A ship in the area, the “SS Californian”, saw the flares and that the ship appeared uneven in the water. The crew told the captain, who did not believe the rockets were fired in distress. All of Titanic’s passengers could have been rescued.