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TIL during the 19th century, a Muslim caliphate in West Africa called Sokoto contained nearly half as many slavves as the United States

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Z1Vv TIL: In 2007 a meteorite impacted near the village Carancas (Peru) leaving a 14 m crater and knocked a guy from his bicycle. Later, villagers and livestock got ill from poisonous material vaporizing from its surface.
BgX8d TIL about the Monument to the War of 1812 in Toronto, it features a silver US toy soldier laying fallen at the feet of a golden Canadian toy soldier.
907G TIL there’s a bracelet with a white bead that carries water from Mt. Everest and on the opposite side, a black bead which contains mud from the Dead Sea (the highest and lowest points on Earth)
ZrOo TIL that in 1971, the U.S. left a memorial on the Moon for every astronaut who died in the pursuit of space exploration, including Russian Cosmonauts
LQMKP TIL that the Greeks had a word for something like gaslighting: eristic arguments.