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TIL Facebook played a role in a modern genocide.

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9Gp7 TIL in 1859, Joshua Norton declared himself Emperor of the United States of America and the people of San Francisco went along with it, accepting his currency, paying for his meals, and even got the police to salute him in the streets. Nearly 30,000 people flooded the streets for his funeral.
Zp4lG TIL February 22nd is National Margarita Day, a fictitious food holiday for Margarita lovers.
X0Bo6 TIL that when invited to his Harvard class of 1962 reunion, Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) RSVP'ed, putting his occupation as "prisoner" and his 8 life sentences as "awards".
DQGxV TIL that when someone was trapped with other skiers in an Avalanche that part of what saved them was when that person recited every line to The Princess Bride to keep everyone helpfully occupied.
x6oyw TIL it took around 3 billion years for the very first single-celled organisms to eventually evolve into basic animal life forms. For comparison, dinosaurs were around for about 165 million years, modern humans have been around for 300,000 years.