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TIL that Killing People to use Their Remains for Get Rich Quick Magic is a Serious Problem in Modern Nigeria

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wL8Ro Today I learned that the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" fought against the Nazis, the Soviets and the Polish Home Army, making it the only organization to fight the Axis, Comintern and Western Allies
ADyr7 TIL world's last Stone Age society exists on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, and they are identified for protecting their island upon all visitors. Because they have been living in isolation for 60,000 years, there is genetically a direct path between them and their pre-Neolithic ancestor
M7MWK TIL of the Vai syllabary, a script used for writing the Vai language of Liberia. It is hypothesized to be based off the Cherokee script, used by the Indigenous Cherokee people in modern day South Eastern United States, and diffused from Cherokee migrants on the Liberian coast.
VrwD TIL of 3 men whom broke into a luxury store in Germany and ran off with $6.8M worth of jewelry. They left behind a piece of evidence, sweat. DNA analysis led to not one but two suspects- identical twins. They couldn’t determine from which one. They went free.
QN0KX TIL a New Zealander learned all the french words for scrabble and became the French Scrabble Champion. He still doesn't speak any french.