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TIL of the Moriori genocide. They could have fought back, but their leaders ended up saying that diplomacy “was not a survival strategy, but a moral imperative”.

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6xyQ TIL The term ‘Rat Pack’ was coined by Lauren Bacall. After a long night of partying in Las Vegas with Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, and Angie Dickinson, Bacall surveyed the party’s aftermath and declared to it’s participants, “You look like a goddamn rat pack.”
N1lb TIL of diamond fluorescence which effects about 30% of diamonds and causes them to glow under UV light.
kO5QB TIL Aztlán is the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples. Nahuatl legends relate that seven tribes lived in Chicomoztoc, or "the place of the seven caves". Each cave represented a different Nahua group, each of the seven groups is credited with founding a different major city-state in Central Mexico.
gnK9 TIL there was hundreds of thousands of Irish slaves and it wasn’t just African slaves.
xy61 TIL that there is a rather large population of Bull Sharks living in a river… yes, in Australia.