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TIL The Greek historian herodotus, who lived in the 5th century BCE, believed people with vitiligo or other skin conditions had been punished by the sun and should be exiled from the community

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ADEEB TIL that one of the 2 co-owners/founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died together aboard the Titanic.
EwEp TIL that Russia trained dolphins how to kill people with harpoons and then sold them to Iran after running out of dolphin food
5P1B TIL 50% of Nigeriens are under 14 years old
JYWJk TIL - for most people, the pain from Kidney stones is not from passing the stone. Rather, its from the stone making its way from the kidney down the ureter towards the bladder, causing muscle spasms. Most stones pass from bladder out of urine relatively pain free
ADJR4 TIL Before the British partitioned India, the spoken language of Urdu and Hindi was referred to collectively as “Hindustani”. When India became independent, Gandhi wanted to keep this Hindustani language. But later Urdu became official language of Pakistan, and Hindi, official language of India