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TIL: About Queen Radavalona I, "The Mad Monarch of Madagascar". She enforced isolationist policies, hunted down Christians, repelled the French, and made tax payments payable through forced labor. She eliminated her mom by starvation to not spill her own blood. The population dropped in half.

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oBVa8 TIL of Claudette Colvin, a black teenager who refused to move for a white woman on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks did. Her action was not widely publicized due to her being pregnant at the time.
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