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TIL that Malcolm X was declared mentally unfit for military service after telling draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers”.

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BLex TIL Mengistu, the brutal communist dictator of Ethiopia, who had thousands of people executed and may have personally murdered Emperor Haile Selassie is alive and well under asylum in Zimbabwe
VJ1Q TIL the longest reigning empress of Austria, was assassinated in 1898 in Geneva. Her assassin initially wanted to kill the Duke of Orleans, but missed his chance, and simply decided to kill the next member of the royal family he saw.
6nK7 TIL Russia didn’t consider beer to be an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before then it was classified as a soft drink.
6vKY TIL in July 1943, an injured Australian soldier single-handedly carried 12 American casualties to safety whilst under heavy fire at Mt. Tambu
W7EKL TIL that all curling stones used in the winter Olympics come from Ailsa Craig in Scotland