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TIL - The name of the last Inca king was Tupac
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TIL during Zhu Di's rebellion against the Ming dynasty, as he was besieging Jinan and bombarding the city with cannons, the defenders put plaques with the name of Zhu Yuanzhang (Zhu Di's father and the Ming dynasty's first emperor) written on them on the walls, forcing Zhu Di to stop the siege.
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TIL during Australia’s first ever plane hijacking in 1960, the copilot Tom Bennett punched the lone, armed hijacker in the face and then ripped the wires from the bomb he was holding, disarming it. He and the pilot then subdued and handcuffed the man, before landing all 43 passengers unharmed.
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TIL the British study that linked vaccines to autism was retracted because this “elaborate fraud” has done long-lasting damage to public health
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TIL that even though they existed for about 165 million years, only about 700 species of dinosaur have been discovered to date.
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TIL Oxana Malaya was abandoned at the age of 3 and raised by dogs. When she was found (8) she walked on four, barked, and completely behaved like a dog.