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ANpEa TIL During Pol Pot’s rule from 1975 to 1979, it is estimated that 1.5 to 2 million people, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population, perished due to forced labor, starvation, diseases, torture, or execution.
J1j61 TIL A day on Venus lasts longer than a year. Venus rotates only once in 243 Earth days, and its year is 225 Earth-days long. And, it rotates east to west, the opposite of Earth. So on Venus, the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.
grvGy TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers.