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TIL: The British built over 100 concentration camps during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. Over 26,000 woman & children died in these camps from starvation & disease

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8aQ5L TIL that it costs more than double the amount of money per household to provide services to the suburbs than to a more urban area
WyeN TIL there is 30-year-old Brazilian woman who has the mind and body of a 9-month-old
5dKP TIL the US prison industry predict future demand by the percentage of illiterate 10- and 11-year-olds.
PYo5G TIL that Ada Lovelace - a woman born in 1815 was the first to recognize that computers are more than just adding machines. She was co-responsible for the creation of the 'Analytical Engine' and is widely recognized as the world’s first Computer Programmer.
kOw1e TIL of the Murchison meteorite, which fell to earth in 1969. It contained high levels of organic compounds, came from a parent body that had liquid water, and the amino acids it contained could not have been synthesized on earth because they consisted of both left- and right- isomers.