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TIL When Guinea declared its independence from France, the French retaliated by burning office files, cutting telephone lines, and even ripped electrical sockets out of walls before leaving the country, effectively cutting off all aid

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KOKPQ TIL through the use of a mirror effect, hieroglyphs seemingly come to life.
ne6vW TIL Pakistan started a Billion Tree Tsunami project 2 years ago, to plant 1 billion trees all over the country within 5 years. Today, they witnessed 70% increase in honey production.
eayD TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once gave a speech immediately after an attempted assassination. He started the speech by saying “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
GYwx7 TIL Arctic is not continent, but just region, because it's basically ice floating on water, not landmass like Antarctic
R7Lnj TIL That in 1957 Little Richard saw a bright red fireball flying across the sky, which he took as "sign from God" to repent from performing secular music and his wild lifestyle at the time until 1962. The fireball actually was the launching of the first artificial Earth satellite Sputnik 1.