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TIL The United Kingdom, at the request of the United States, began expelling the native inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago in 1968

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16wx4 TIL the woodlouse, a common crustacean that goes back 100 million years, has over 50 different common names used around the world
6ErpJ TIL the first known use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in baseball was in 1899, when Hall of Fame pitcher Pud Galvin received an injection of crushed dog and guinea pig testicles
4kRko TIL Belgium's "Chocolate Hands" refers to their role in the colonization of the Congo. This included flying Congolese people to Brussels to live in a "human zoo" where spectators would throw bananas at them. They quietly ended this practice in 1958.
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