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TIL Rwanda's Akagera national park is the largest protected wetland in Africa and safari destination with elephants, lions. But in 1997 it was reduced in size by close to 50% as the land was allocated to populations returning after the 1994 genocide

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E1Lv0 TIL The FBI declassified documents stating after Nikola Tesla died, they recovered plans & diagrams for a “death ray”, and technology for wireless electrical energy transmission.
KabQ TIL of Perotine Guernsey, a pregnant woman burned as a heretic in 1556; during the burning she delivered her son, who was rescued from the fire only to be thrown back in by order of the magistrate.
GYQAJ TIL Maria Daume, the first female marine to go through the traditional training process, was born in a Siberian prison and orphaned at age 2.
JY15v TIL that Granny Smiths, Fujis, and Pink Ladies can all be traced back to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the ancestor apples still grow wild there in the Tian Shan mountains.
MeQaW TIL People used to sleep indoors in ornate boxes called “box beds” or “lit close” to protect themselves from wolves, stay warm, and have some privacy.