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TIL in Kenya (and eastern Africa) people accused of witchcraft are beaten and burned alive, and such lynchings are on the rise

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epw6n TIL one of the moons of Mars (Phobos) orbits Mars much faster than Mars rotates, and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes. From the surface of Mars it appears to rise in the west, move across the sky in 4 hours and 15 minutes, and set in the east, twice each Martian day.
b179 TIL in 1893 the first graduating class of New Mexico State University had only one student - and he was murdered before graduation.
WLbo TIL that Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa, is ranked as the country with the least Media Freedom, at 179 out of 179, it’s worse than North Korea which is in the 178th rank.
O757 TIL: Some parts of Glasgow have a lower average life expectancy than that of Iraq
dDwm8 TIL Osedax worms use acid to bore into shark and whale bones and teeth once they are shed or in carcasses, and rely on symbiotic bacteria to release nutrients the worms can absorb. The females reproduce continuously. 100s of dwarf males live inside a female's surrounding tube.