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TIL The Chinese government may have killed up to 10,454 of its own citizens during the Tianamen Square protests of 1989

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X0onP TIL of Cáin Adomnáin, dubbed "Europe's first human rights treaty". Created in the year 697, was a set of laws - which kings across Ireland and parts of Scotland mutually agreed to follow - that guaranteed the safety of non-combatants in warfare.
4k8b TIL that it’s actually not illegal for a former employer to give a bad reference, they just generally don’t do it to avoid being sued for defamation.
VMWkm TIL that there are more chickens on planet earth than humans
4XaKX TIL inmates at Riker's Island are paid $1 an hour to bury unclaimed bodies on Hart Island. I also learned that Hart Island is a place in NYC that used to house an insane asylum for women, city jails, and a "reformatory for vicious boys."
4Xgk6 TIL Brown University named their porta potties the "E. Gordon Gee Lavatory Complex" after the former president Gordon Gee cut funding to the arts programs.