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TIL in 2008 the entire nation of Japan had 11 total firearm related homicides

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VBXQ4 TIL Ancient Greeks referred to Subsaharan Africans as Aethiopians, meaning “burnt-face people”. Aethiopia referred to all of the inhabited land found to the south of Egypt. The Greek historian Herodotus stated, “the men are taller, handsomer, and longer lived than anywhere else.”
QJMN9 TIL Asian elephants are more closely related to Wooly Mammoths than they are to African Elephants
1aa5V TIL the name Vanessa was invented by Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift for Esther Vanhomrigh, whom he tutored. The name was created by taking "Van" from Vanhomrigh and "Essa" from a pet form of Esther.
BmRK TIL that the interior of the Skylab space station was so enormous that astronauts could get “stuck” in the middle, and had to either try and “swim” or wait for air currents to blow them back to a wall.
wLQGY TIL in 1992, the UK set up a fake company in order to buy Soviet T-80 tanks, claiming they would be sent to Morocco. The UK studied the tanks and gifted one to the USA for the same purpose.