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TIL in 1857 Mormon leader Brigham Young ordered the massacre of 100-140 emigrants on their way to California then covered it up from US federal investigators

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8N68 TIL The UK had to cancel a lottery because players didn’t understand negative numbers
NXPrE TIL in 2011 the burial site of a "sorcerer" from the late Holocene was discovered near Adelaide in Australia
gM7ML TIL as a result of increased popularity of crack cocaine, the number of cocaine-related hospital emergencies in the USA increased 110% in 1986.
0wnEM TIL that the exoplanet Kepler-70b has an average temperature hotter than the Sun's surface as a result of falling into its host star and subsequently surviving
wLyRM TIL Meerkats are a type of mongoose that live in burrows in Africa. Remarkably social, they live in groups that can number up to 30 individuals (called mobs) that cooperate in keeping watch over their pups. Interestingly, when females reach sexual maturity, they are usually banished from the family.