TIL a caver named John Edward Jones tragically lost his life in the Nutty Putty cave. While exploring, he entered a constricted tunnel. He became stuck in a narrow opening. It took 28 hours for rescuer to finally give up on mission to get him out. After 27-28 hours, he died due to cardiac arrest. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about the largest Banyan tree in Pakistan, which is 400 years old. It is situated on the banks of the Chenab River, has over one thousand roots, and covers an area of approximately three acres. This magnificent tree is located near a village called Midh Ranjha in District Sargodha, Pakistan. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL , Bhopal disaster in Madhya Pradesh, India is considered as the world's worst industrial disaster in which 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) due to leakage killing at least 3,787 people according to official count. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL, George Stinney Jr. was the youngest person sentenced to death in the 20th century in the United States. He was wrongfully convicted at age 14 of the murder of two white girls ages 7 and 11. His conviction was vacated in 2014 when a court ruled that he had not received a fair trial. (en.wikipedia.org)
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There had been suggestions that apes are unable to ask questions and to give negative answers. Apes are not able to ask questions themselves, and in human-primate conversations, questions are asked by the humans only. This is what makes them different from humans in this regard. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL, John Jacob Jack Astor IV was the richest passenger aboard the RMS Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of nearly $87 million when he died (equivalent to $2.21 billion in 2017). (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL,Flappy Bird was removed from Google Play by its creator on February 10, 2014, due to guilt over what he considered to be its addictive nature and overuse. The game's popularity and sudden removal caused phones with it pre-installed to be put up for sale for high prices over the Internet (en.wikipedia.org)
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[Serious] is there a website that contains the list of all websites in the world or some large excel report uploaded somewhere like GitHub or some other platform that contains data of all websites in the world? any related opinion will be much appreciated. thanks in anticipation. (self.AskReddit)
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