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TIL that Fritz Haber, the "father of chemical warfare," created the Haber-Bosch process of synthesizing ammonia for fertilizers used in over half of the global population's current food production.

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m15QE TIL that the first recorded labour strike took place in Ancient Egypt, in 1170 BCE, by tomb workers. After the grain supply was repeatedly late, workers stopped working and demanded prompt pay. Because it was the first of its kind, management did not know how to react, and largely caved to demands.
kEl1 TIL in 1986, Saddam Hussein built Iraq’s largest dam. He decided to call it “Saddam”
1a9md TIL of the Latin phrase "Damnatio memoriae" meaning "condemnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts, including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history.
KYX4R TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft
R7v9j TIL when Turkey was outraged over Mount Ararat included in Soviet Armenia's coat of Arms, Nikita Khrushchev responded to Turkey with "Why do you have a moon on your flag? The moon doesn't belong to Turkey, not even half the moon". Turkey dropped the issue after this.