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TIL after communists overthrew Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, they established the Derg regime that massacred thousands of people in Ethiopia

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9Y85m TIL when Mark Twain started learning German, he noted humourously "In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl."
rxao TIL that in Brazil there is a football field located exactly on the equator so each team defends one hemisphere
5PJk TIL that the first school shooting to happen in the United States was the Enoch Brown school massacre, in which 2 Delaware (Lenape) American Indians broke into a school where they shot and scalped the students and their teacher. 4 others were taken prisoner.
7Dnr TIL that 11 years ago a starquake was detected on a star, which, if located within 10 light years of Earth, would have triggered a mass extinction.
ErLV TIL that in the 1930s Guinness was the 7th largest company in the entire world