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TIL: King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines

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Ag5d TIL Charles Darwin received 4,000 votes on last weeks election.
lKEB TIL that the CIA carried out a terrorist campaign against civilian Viet Cong sympathizers in which over 26,000 were killed while some 55,000 others were captured and subjected to rape, electrocution, maulings, and other torture.
d8wK TIL that ancient Antarctica was much warmer and wetter than previously suspected. The climate was suitable to support substantial vegetation, including stunted trees, along the edges of the frozen continent.
R7k6j TIL that the man who originally came up with password practices (changing every 90 days, using caps/special characters) recanted most of his advice in 2017
WRn4 TIL in 1897, a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife solely based on the testimony of his wife’s ghost who visited her mother in the night and detailed the crime.