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TIL: Over 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria for their religion since 2009 (as of March 23)

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5YNG8 TIL that you shouldn't rinse out your mouth after brushing your teeth but rather just spit it out?
P1xAV TIL that in 1919, spontaneous combustion caused a fire at a chocolate factory in New York. The chocolate mixture that leaked out, was large enough for rowboats to pass through and children formed a crowd to try and taste it.
epx14 TIL Mexico's official legal name is "United Mexican States"
78WO7 TIL toilet paper isn’t a standard use item in India. Instead, it’s considered more hygienic to splash yourself with water using your bare hands for cleanup
Lk1X9 The winds at Jupiter’s surface, some of the most powerful in the solar system, influence the planet’s gravitational field, the latest observations show. This means that Jupiter’s signature, crisscrossing bands don’t just exist on the surface of the atmosphere. Jupiter’s wind flows actually extend 3,000 kilometres (about 1,860 miles) below the cloud tops, where the pressure is about 100,000 times that of the atmosphere at Earth’s surface.