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TIL the Nigerian government has removed history from the secondary school curriculum as a result of the Nigerian civil war (the biafran war) being too controversial, where the Nigerian government blockaded and starved 3 million people to death.

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KYMV9 TIL that the last queen of Madagascar befriended a French magician who was secretly employed as a spy. While performing in her court, he aided the French conquest of her nation.
J1Jmv TIL that charcoal beetles fly into forest fires to mate and lay eggs because competition and predators will be low. They sense distant fires using infrared armpit sensors.
E1PJW TIL Bonnie and Clyde were so impressed by the 1934 Ford V-8 Model B, that they wrote a letter to Henry Ford expressing that the Model B was the perfect getaway car.
Z8GOD TIL King Leopold of Belgium had between 1-15 million Congolese people murdered while he exploited their area for rubber
eMED TIL - Actor Ed O'Neill, Al Bundy from Married with Children, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame…In front of a shoe store