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TIL that Europe has an official anthem

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rNpQd TIL of the Goler Clan - a group of poor, rural families living in Canada whose lineage showed incest dating back to the 1860s. In 1984, it was discovered that many Goler children experienced physical and sexual torture at the hands of mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, and cousins.
XEVKk Today I learned that vending machines are twice as dangerous as sharks
kLZ7 TIL the Thuggee were a real death-cult that murdered 2,000,000 travelers over 600 years.
bma9 TIL that, for unclear reasons, engineers and engineering students have a significantly above-average likelihood to engage in terrorist activity
78wJp TIL in the year 1800, almost 40% of the world's population lived in the Qing empire (China)