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0drkA TIL there was an entire recent brutal 2 year war in Tigray Region of Ethiopia with more than half a million people killed.
kKd7 TIL the place name Kandahar in Afghanistan loosely translates to “Alexander” as in Alexander the Great. Khandahar was one of the cities named Alexandria established during Alexander’s conquests.
jNQjE Today I learned that during the years it was produced, the Ford Bronco II averaged about seventy deaths per a year or about as many people as were killed by tornadoes in the United States in the same time period.
ejRg TIL the origin of the piggy bank, which started in the Middle Ages with the material used to make storage jars for coins: an orange clay called “pygg.” Through language evolution and cultural overlap, English potters were asked to make pygge banks, so they started making them in the shape of pigs.
69097 TIL that Keanu Reeves has been secretly funding children's hospitals for years. He reportedly created a private foundation that aids children’s hospitals and cancer research without associating his name with it. "I don't like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does."