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TIL that as many as 100,000 of Hong Kong’s poor and elderly live in small metal cages only barely large enough to lie down in.

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WkXM4 TIL Thomas Jefferson spoke English, French, Latin, could read Greek and Spanish, studied and wrote on Old English, and studied other languages including German, Arabic, Irish, and Welsh.
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