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TIL that Patrice Lumumba ,the first democratically elected PM of Congo and a pan-Africanist, lasted only 81 days before being killed by the Belgians and the CIA

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ZJBo TIL that a baby in Poland was born with 23 times the legal BAC after his mom went on a drinking binge the night before
xVwYo TIL that Fakhruddin Razi (d.1210), a Persian Polymath, decentred our universe-centric ideas with his conception of a multiverse. This astonishing idea happened 300 years before Copernicus' more well-known revolution of moving western astronomical knowledge from geocentric to heliocentric
56mQ TIL in 1963, a Turkish man knocked down a wall in his basement, revealing a secret room which led to an underground tunnel that took him to the ancient city of Derinkuyu
Wk5M9 TIL while modern Icelanders' paternal ancestry is primarily (75%) Norse, most of their maternal ancestry (62%) is from Scotland/Ireland
OoPvX TIL in 1820, 94% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.