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TIL - Pterodactyls were not dinosaurs, they were just flying reptiles that hung out with dinos

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rwnx TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.
8ep58 TIL There's nothing outside the solar system that defies logic. And there is nothing outside the solar system indee..........d!
X0a5j TIL that Switzerland doesnt have a head of state instead a council of 7 people
kOeNg TIL That “one nation under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance during the Eisenhower administration and has only been in place for 65 years
Yp5Lx TIL The Battle of Adwa in 1896 saw Ethiopia win a decisive victory against Italy, securing Ethiopia's independence for another 40 years. In that period Ethiopia was hailed as the only surviving African state to defeat a European colonial power in open battle