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TIL in 2014 there was a 7,500 player battle in EVE Online, with thousands of ships being destroyed and an estimated $300,000 of real world money being lost in the conflict.

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kJnKm TIL of Omar Ibn Said, an enslaved black Muslim scholar from the 18th century. Although his slave owners believed he had converted to Christianity, his autobiography revealed that he was still Muslim. His love for Jesus was interpreted as Christian, when Jesus is also a Muslim Prophet.
JYkZk TIL about the dangerous exploitative industry of Cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa. Most of the labor is done by children for very little pay. The demand ever increasing , this mineral fuels the tech industry, cobalt is used for batteries for phones, gadgets and e cars.
VMAap TIL the Himba tribe in Namibia has no word for the color blue. In research, when shown 11 green squares and 1 blue, they couldn't pick out which was different. The research suggests that without a way of identifying the color as different, it's harder for our eyes to notice it.
yVQkJ TIL In 1968 South Korea hatched a plan to assassinate Kim Il Sung that went terribly wrong: Recruits (petty criminals) snapped during intense training on a remote island, killed their trainers, hijacked and blew up a bus in Seoul, killing 15... In all 37 people killed, 7 missing and 30 wounded.
gM49b TIL That widespread, angry protests targeting returning Vietnam veterans are largely an urban myth aimed at dividing veterans and other anti-war protesters.