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TIL in Togo the natives call the castoff clothes they receive from America “Dead White Men Clothing” because a living person would not throw away anything this good.

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QNKN6 TIL World War Z author Max Brooks balances dual fellowships at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the Modern War Institute at West Point
P11PV TIL scientists once swapped DNA cells between a human zygote and a mouse zygote to see what would happen. While the mouse zygote was able to reprogram and become a mouse, the human zygote "soon died" in every attempt, with no clear view on what would form.
l7MrA TIL the first non-stop transatlantic flight happened in 1919. Two British aviators, J. Alcock and A. Brown, flew from Canada to Ireland, completing the trip in just under sixteen hours. On the way, they lost radio contact and heating, and flew through fog and snow, freezing in the open plane.
0dp0j TIL In 2012, a solar Coronal Mass Ejection that might have taken the world 4 to 10 years to recover from missed Earth by about 9 days
p8g5N TIL the Gendarmerie of Haiti, the collaborationist police-force raised by the USA during its occupation of Haiti in the early 1900s, sent a rifle team of indigenous gendarmes to the 1924 Olympics. The team won the nation's first-ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in the team free rifle event.