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TIL in the first years of her Regency Queen Elizabeth II oversaw the imprisonment, torture and murder of thousands of Kenyans in the Mau Mau rebellion.

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EgZEV TIL that Blind People Can process speech up to 3x times faster(25 syllables per second at Their Best!) in comparison to Normal Individuals. This is because their brain is able to repurpose their visual cortex to enhance their auditory sensing capabilities.
dDpb7 TIL that George Orwell, the writer of "1984" and "Animal Farm", was born in India in the present state of Bihar.
grQJb TIL about Dicyemida, a phylum of aquatic microorganisms whose members parasite off the renal glands of cephalopods.
QJ8a6 TIL heroin was originally marketed as a nonaddictive alternative to morphine
p8ZWG TIL when Beethoven first performed his Ninth Symphony, as he couldn’t hear the rapturous applause it received due to his deafness, one of his singers approached him and turned him around so that he could see the standing ovation he was receiving.