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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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gMoYA TIL that French grammarian Dominique Bouhours's last words were "I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct."
nWrLd TIL the average prison wage in the U.S maxes out at 52 cents per hour
aMrb TIL that in 1958 after six-year-old white girl Sissy Marcus playfully kissed seven-year-old black boy David Simpson as nine-year-old James Thomson -also black- stood by, both boys were arrested for “molestation” and sentenced to reform school until they reached the age of twenty-one.
NX4jJ TIL the first domesticated cattle were in Iran 10,000 years ago, and most cattle today are descendants of only 80 cows.
E1JaX TIL When the Beijing 2008 Olympics Flame arrived in Pyongyang, a thousand full-dressed Koreans and Chinese overseas students greeted it at the airport. The Pyongyang leg of the torch relay started from the Tower of the Juche Idea and concluded at the Kim Il Sung Stadium