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TIL: The first use of the term “Genocide” and as a crime against humanity in a legal context was the Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial led by chief US prosecutor Ben Ferencz

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nWLPr TIL that Cleopatra’s ethnicity and her mom’s identity are actually unknown.
Oo55Y TIL David Attenborough's full title is Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FSA and he also has 32 honorary degrees
45Wb TIL the gender of crocodiles is determined not by genetics, but by the temperature in which the eggs are kept in during the incubation period.
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w88 TIL that a 17 year old girl faked a pregnancy for 6 months as a social experiment with only a handful of people knowing about it.