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TIL that a tape indicated only one person objected to Jim Jones before the mass suicide in Jonestown where over 900 died and she was shouted down by the rest of the group.

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R57Ja TIL the RAF and USAAF dropped 3,316,000 magnesium incendiary bombs on Munich alone during WWII, 4 bombs for every inhabitant.
JYDGv TIL New Mexico is not named after Mexico. It was named Nuevo México after the Aztec Valley of Mexico by Spanish settlers, more than 250 years before the establishment and naming of the present-day country of Mexico.
Emlp TIL that when Cristiano Ronaldo was asked to donate his cleats for a charity auction benefitting 10-year old Erik Ortiz Cruz, who had a brain disorder that can cause 30 seizures a day, he instead paid the whole $83K for his surgery.
xve7 TIL that 20,000 bibles were once donated from the US to Romania. The Romanian government pulped most of them and turned them into toilet paper.
D16MD TIL Blue Whales eat between 20 and 50 million calories every day. That's approximately what a human adult eat in 50 years (2500 calories/day). In the words of the researcher himself, "that is about 70 to 80 thousand Big Macs".