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TIL Hitler praised the “Efficiency” of the American Genocide of Native Americans

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4RQR TIL that Monsanto once created a town in Illinois so it could build a factory in a town with low taxes and lax regulations. The town is now home to a huge superfund site
rdk1 TIL Rollie-pollies are crustaceans that live their entire lives on land
wlkE TIL A French woman, Jeanne de Clisson, became a pirate in the 1300’s for revenge after her husband was beheaded. Selling her lands to buy 3 ships, they were painted black with red sails. Hunting French ships, when she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
e0NZD TIL about the Meno’s Paradox, also known as the Paradox of Inquiry. The gist of this paradox is that inquiry is either unnecessary or impossible, based on whether you know the certain fact or you don’t respectively.
neQaY TIL that starting about 7,000 years ago in Egypt, seasonal rains started moving south until rain only now falls regularly on the Ethiopian highlands. This shift forced nomadic cattle herders to settle along the Nile, leading to the first permanent Egyptian civilizations.