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TIL the UK engaged in reparations for slavery, but only for slave owning families. The British tax payers finally paid off the debt from this in 2015.

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AOw4 TIL of the “Night-Witches,” a Russian regiment of all-female aviators during WWII. Despite only flying slow, obsolete planes, the regiment is said to have dropped over 3,000 tons of bombs and each pilot to have flown over 1,000 missions.
N7vWE TIL about the Cagots, a highly persecuted minority on the French-Spanish border, who were the same ethnicity and religion as their persecutors.
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