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TIL that Ecuador is named after being on the equator and is in fact the only country in the world named after a geographical feature

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vPYb8 TIL that 'Bend It Like Beckham' (2002) was the first ever Western-made film to air on television in North Korea
OoRe TIL that there is a mathematical formula that when graphed, produces an image of the formula itself
emEE TIL that the Black Mamba snake, one of the most poisonous snakes in the world, contains pain-relieving compounds called mambalgins which could be a better painkiller (and with less side effects) than morphine.
yQ6nJ TIL Guatemala had a 36+ year long civil war during which the government committed mass genocide against the Maya. The military chief became the first person to be convicted of ordering forced disappearances and the president the first former head of state to be tried for genocide by his own country.
MeEl8 TIL about Project Cybersyn, a cybernetics project under Chilean President Salvador Allende in the 1970s attempting to create a socialist computing system that would aid and guide state planning of Chile's state-run economy.