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TIL there is an annual fashion show in Australia for ducks
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TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
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TIL the largest safety recall in US history occurred because of defective Takata airbags that can deploy explosively and have killed at least 27 people & injured over 400. Overall, 67 million airbags in 42 million vehicles from 34 brands (mostly model years 2002-2015) have been recalled in the US.
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TIL that the Rwandan Genocide, which had a rate of 6 people being killed every minute for 3 months, has left 73% of it's survivors diaspora in Finland traumatised after 22 years.
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TIL: That 1985's Live Aid helped fund the corrupt Ethiopian government and was spent on guns, not to relieve famine.
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TIL the East German Stasi used psych warfare called Zersetzung against dissidents. Tactics involved breaking into homes and subtly manipulating the contents; moving furniture, altering alarms, removing pictures from walls. Many thought they were losing their minds, and had mental breakdowns.