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TIL that the last patient with ebola in the DRC has been discharged, thus ending the ebola outbreak in the DRC.

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G47J TIL: A programmer was hired by a Florida congressman to rig electronic voting machines in previous elections with a 49%/51% outcome. The code was not detectable. This is the video of his testimony under oath.
v1aK8 TIL that Americans threw $8.5m worth of silver coins into the sea before the fall of the Philippines. American and Filipino POW divers were coerced by the Japanese to recover it but they sabotaged the operation by secretly appropriating some portions of the haul to fund the Philippine Resistance.
6Exew TIL Casper the Friendly Ghost and Ghostbusters take place in the same universe. Dr. Raymond Stantz appears in both.
6E7aw TIL Alligator Snapping Turtles can live over 150 years, and some have been found with musketballs and flint arrowheads in their shells
yQd58 TIL that in China there are centres for internet addiction with treatments that can be so rough that some patients have died. Some facilities use electro-shock treatment as part of the cure, and among roughly three hundred such centres in China, there have been seven reported deaths.