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TIL: UN Secretary General Waldheim told the UN Security Council that the 1976 Entebbe raid that rescued 100+ hostages was "a serious violation of the sovereignty of a Member State of the United Nations"

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d86aQ TIL since 1986, the lead singer of the band 'Toto' has been Joseph Williams, the son of legendary composer John Williams (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, etc.)
jvNX TIL of Sara Forbes Bonetta, a West African who was orphaned, sold into slavery, and in a remarkable twist of events, was liberated from enslavement and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria.
GwDj TIL Daniel “Chappie” James Jr., the first African American to reach the rank of four-star general, had an Old West style standoff with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who complied and pulled back after James demanded him to move his hand away from his gun.
bv5Q TIL that Guy Debord, French Marxist literary theorist, published his first book with a sandpaper cover so that books placed next to it would be destroyed
b4LN TIL that existential depression is a certain type of depression that arises when an individual confronts certain basic issues of their existence. To over simplify, simply living makes people not want to live.