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TIL the entire world's population could fit inside Los Angeles.

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Bg1Yx TIL about the Haymarket Affair, an 1886 incident in Chicago where labors striking for an 8hr workday were dispersed by police w force, killing a protestor. In response at the next rally, a protestor threw TNT at the cops, killing several w several more on both sides dying in the ensuing gunfight.
oRDk7 TIL that the town of Mafeking, wholly inside and incorporated as part of South Africa since 1910, was the officially recognized capital of Bechuanaland (Botswana) until 1965.
XERxk TIL: Godzilla has the most number of sequels of any movie with 29 sequels
M7gEK TIL Rihanna was an army cadet in a sub-military program, where the later Barbadian singer-songwriter Shontelle was her drill sergeant
ZdnD TIL that in the Himba tribe in Namibia (where they have no word for the color blue) test subjects could not single out a blue square from a group of green squares.