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TIL of a tribe in the Vanavatu Islands which worship Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh (Husband of Queen Elisabeth II) as a divine being

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N5Xe TIL X-Men has often been compared to the African-American Civil Rights movement, with Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcom X.
neVrY TIL that the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jeannette Rankin was the only member of the US congress voted AGAINST going to war with Japan. "As a woman, I can't go to war," she said, "and I refuse to send anyone else."
Brole TIL the Dyatlov pass mystery, one of worlds biggest mysteries, in which 9 Russian hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains due to strange and inexplicable injuries, was recently SOLVED after 60 years.
my5p TIL that New Hampshire has 400 state representatives and each are paid $200 per two-year term. In contrast, California has just 80 with each making $100k+ per year.
l4WV TIL Tété-Michel Kpomassie, a Togolese writer, fell in love with Greenland as a child because of the absence of snakes in the country, his biggest fear. Due to this, he ran away from home and after 12 years he finally reached Greenland. He then wrote a book about it called: “An African in Greenland”