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TIL: Graffiti is Plural. Graffito is the singular form

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Me4jB TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1990s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.
p8XNZ TIL about the Bodo League Massacre of 1950, where 60,000-200,000 civilians suspected of being communists (many of whom had no connection with communism) were executed in South Korea during the Korean War
OGNv4 TIL in 1987, the residents of the atoll island of Faaite in French Polynesia were gripped by mass hysteria brought on by Tahitian cultists who had taken control of the local church leadership and spread rumors of demon possession which culminated in six locals being burned alive on a bonfire.
x6L47 TIL Hawaii has an endemic Hawk | The Hawaiian hawk or ʻio (Buteo solitarius) is a raptor in the genus Buteo endemic to Hawaii, Currently restricted to the Big Island. The ʻio is one of two extant birds of prey that are native to Hawaii, the other being the pueo
679Y TIL that there is an ancient Babylonian tablet dated from 1800 BCE which contains a list of Pythagorean Triples.