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TIL Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire created the first declaration of human rights and is honorably mentioned in the Bible, Jewish Bible (Tanakh), and Quran.

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Wk7gY TIL All 32,000 games in original Windows Freecell are solvable except one, #11982
OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.
Y7nav TIL The International UFO Museum & Research Center was opened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1992 by Walter Haut, a been public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947. Many visitors come numerous times and some spend days or even weeks doing research in the library
Zp0mG TIL that in 2007, two Cuban boxers, Erislandy Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux, deserted the Cuban delegation during the Pan-American Games. The Brazilian authorities arrested and deported them back to Cuba, and in 2008 and 2009 both of them successfully defected to Mexico.
bQL7 TIL of Li-Fi, a potential replacement for Wi-Fi that has reached transmission speeds of up to 200 gigabits per second.