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TIL About the Moriori Genocide, in which the Taranaki Tribe of the South Island of New Zealand slaughtered almost all of the peaceful and non-violent Moriori of the Chatham Archipelago.

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RBPl TIL The core of the first nuclear weapon was driven to the test range in the back seat of a scientist’s car.
gMWQ4 TIL that some people pronounce the “s” sound by putting there tongue to their top teeth, and others make it by putting their tongue to their bottom teeth. They are know as “tippers” and “dippers” respectively.
DQYY TIL a Girl woke up from a coma unable to speak her native language but can speak fluent German.
l7GAB TIL that there was a real-life Lord of the Flies-esque situation where school boys were stuck on a deserted island for 15 months but the boys banded together rather than feuding.
VM8D8 TIL In 1740 a Swedish woman named Christina Johansdotter killed a friends infant in order to die herself as a result of execution for her crime. Bizarrely, killing children as a method of suicide was so problematic the government tried getting involved (tagged as NSFW just in case)