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TIL 2005-02-26 Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections, asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76

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wLRDP TIL that California's Stanislaus county, river, & forest are named after Estanislao, a Yokut tribal leader who rebelled against colonial rule and fought the Spanish & later Mexican armies to a stalemate. He was also known to carve an S into buildings during his raids.
YpyG TIL that a 14 year old boy from Malawi built a windmill for his home and figured out on his own how to harness the power from the windmill to have electricity and pumping water in his house.
wldP TIL Carl Sagan wanted to include the Beatles “Here Comes the Sun” on the golden record sent into space on the Voyager spacecrafts. The Beatles said yes, EMI said no.
e01DE TIL of crow funerals - crows are among the few social creatures that have certain rituals that honor their dead fellows.
e04Rn TIL During the first outbreak of The Black Death in France in 1348, cities ran out of consecrated ground to bury the dead in so quickly, that the current Pope, Clement VI, had to bless the entire Rhone river to allow corpses to be legally dumped in it.