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TIL that the Africans in Bolivia, descended of slaves, have a king officially recognized by Bolivia

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R7gx8 TIL that after a male Darwin’s bark spider fertilizes a female, he plugs up the female’s genitals with a mating plug. Using silk, the female traps the male so that he’s stuck to her genitals, saving him for when she’s hungry.
1PM8 TIL that the claim that North Korea could kill 90 percent of the American people with an EMP attack was taken from a science fiction novel.
7rG8x TIL during the German invasion of the USSR in WW2, Nazi forces captured Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. When the Nazis proposed exchanging him for their captured field marshal Frierich Paulus, Stalin retorted "I will not trade a marshal for a lieutenant." Dzhugashvili was later executed in 1943.
o77 TIL The first Barley Beer in history may be from Iran, where Beer is now illegal for 98% of the population.
69dj8 TIL That there is NO camera phone footage of 9/11. The first US camera phone reached the market in November 2002