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TIL mass deaths due to the governmental acts of criminal omission and neglect is called Democide

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jNK7Q TIL at the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack, many people thought it was a drill. One sailor said, "This is the best goddam drill the Army Air Force has ever put on!"
P1jXG TIL in 1985, the Canadian government banned the use of the name "Beef patty" by Jamaican patty vendors. The legal definition of "patty" at the time only described hamburger patties. After community outrage and mobilisation, vendors were allowed to call their products "Jamaican patties".
E17Pd TIL that even though humans are quite numerous inhabitants of the earth, we are outnumbered by chickens by a bit more than 3 times and we are still rapidly increasing their numbers.
rRlL1 TIL a single strand of spaghetti is a spaghetto
ZxXR TIL Sean Connery had a gun pointed at him by a gangster and proceeded to disarm and knock the gangster to the floor.