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TIL the Amish have such a high birth rate (average of 7 children per family) they are among the fastest-growing populations in the world.

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Bb7W TIL That in France it is illegal to deny that the holocaust happened.
n1eo TIL of the unintended effect the film “Black Hawk Down” had on the Somalis in Mogadishu. They cheered during a screening of their bootleg copy every time an American was killed, and some were even proud of how they were portrayed in the film.
9YGwD TIL about Operation Kitona, when in 1998 Rwandan/Ugandan forces highjacked 4 civilian airliners, flew them to an airbase in western DRC where they amassed 3000 troops, then took over the Inga Dams and cut off power to Kinshasa. Thus began the Second Congo War, second deadliest conflict since WWII.
rRKbM TIL that after large animals went extinct, such as the mammoth, avocados had no method of seed dispersal, which would have lead to their extinction without early human farmers.
7MnO TIL two danish kids went on a backpack trip to japan with no plans, ended up stars in a Japanese tv-show.