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TIL: The British used concentration camps to commit genocide in Kenya in the 1950's.

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8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)
gMdyW TIL from the ages of 1 to 44 you are most likely to die from an accident. From the age of 45 on, you are most likely to die from cancer or heart disease. (Under 1, you are most likely to die from a birth defect)
oRgJR TIL that in 1970 British Rail submitted a patent for a flying saucer designed to be an interplanetary vehicle powered by nuclear fusion. It was originally proposed as a lifting platform and by the time the patent was filed it had been revised to become a large passenger craft for space travel.
OGEZe TIL a group of three or more Pugs is called a “grumble”.
OoMDe TIL that because of a treaty signed in 1795, the state of New York still gives 150 bushels of salt to the Onondaga people every spring