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TIL an indigenous people, the Mapuche, successfully repelled the Spanish colonizing force, costing the most Spanish lives of any conflict in the New World. The conflict is considered one of the longest wars in history

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ANgd TIL there is a four man anti-poaching team permanently guarding a Northern White Rhino in Kenya
8wBa TIL that there is a plan to send fertilized frozen embryos to habitable planets nearby. The newborns will be raised by robots who will build a civilization while the babies are growing.
D1wdj TIL about 20,000 year-old fossilized human footprints that were discovered in Australia. Those footprints indicated that the man who made them was running at the speed of a modern Olympic sprinter, which he did by running on sand while being barefooted.
788Kx TIL Malika Oufkir, daughter of a Moroccan politician who failed at the coup d'etat in 1977, and her mother and siblings spent 15 years in the desert prison before escaping in 1991.
7rbpO TIL about the quokka, a marsupial in Australia that has become so accustomed to humans visiting that it is known to take selfies with them