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TIL there must always be a cyclone somewhere on Earth

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D1XGg TIL in 1800s, freed African-American slaves were helped to migrate to Liberia to escape oppression into a country of their very own, where they immediately established an apartheid upon their native African cousins, treating them the same way they were treated by their white oppressors.
69vom TIL Pope John Paul II loved Doc Martens boots so much he gave 100 pairs to Swiss Guards in the Vatican.
Meo08 TIL the rate of suicide among 10 to 14-year-olds has doubled over the last 30 years.
ArMn TIL there are giant clouds of alcohol floating in space. Near the constellation of Aquila, there’s a cloud 1000 times the diameter of our solar system with enough ethyl alcohol to fill 400 trillion trillion pints of beer. Every person would have to drink 300,000 pints each day for one billion years.
Me068 TIL Ninjas didn't wear black masks. The mask associated with ninjas is actually an amalgamation of how a thief dressed in Japan. Ninjas also didn't use shuriken (throwing stars), these were used by Samurai swordsmen