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TIL Sierra Leone has only had one elected Muslim president since its independence, despite being a country with a majority Muslim population.

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8eAbV TIL about Sacoglossans, otherwise known as 'solar-powered sea slugs', that are incorporating living chloroplasts from their food source into their tissues to camouflage, otherwise called 'kleptoplasty'. And also that they're unique species apart of protists to do so.
Lkxvm TIL a 19 year old man dove 85 feet into the ocean to wrestle an 80 pound octopus with a 9 foot diameter to the surface in a 25 minute epic battle in which he punched the octopus subduing it after it turned red and lunged at him tearing off his respirator. He drove it home, cooked it up, and ate it.
D16Vp TIL three of the four US presidents that were assassinated were killed in a 36-year time frame between 1865 and 1901.
GAYJQ TIL King Gojong, on the 16th day of the 11th month of 1895 (32nd year of reign), issued an edict that all adult men cut their hair short: “In front of the people I cut my hair first, so it is my wish that the people follow my will ... "
4XJ5a TIL that when the first white man came back to describe Yellow Stone and consequentially its geothermal features, his report was considered fictional. The same also happened for the second non-native.