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TIL Belgium's "Chocolate Hands" refers to their role in the colonization of the Congo. This included flying Congolese people to Brussels to live in a "human zoo" where spectators would throw bananas at them. They quietly ended this practice in 1958.

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XDvD TIL there’s a game about living with depression that illustrates to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do.
4lGo TIL 1989 Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke gave a speech allowing Chinese People to come to Australia following the Tiananmen Square Massacre, without telling the Australian government.
OlPR TIL that if you travel at 99% the speed of light away from the sun, the light from the sun would still pass by you at the speed of light relative to you.
pO14 TIL of the Wow! signal, a strong narrowband radio signal detected on Aug 15, 1977 that originated from near Chi Sagittarii. Its frequency is very close to the Hydrogen Line, which scientists believe intelligent races might use to send a strong signal. We still do not know its origin.
0wyr5 TIL William Dorsey Swann, an African-American born into slavery, was the first self-identified Drag Queen