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TIL slavery was not abolished in Ethiopia until 1942

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4Xxnw TIL that the bullet lodged inside President Garfield likely didn't cause his death. At the time, Joseph Lister's ideas about germs had been widely accepted in Europe, but American doctors were still sceptical. Garfield's doctors used unsterilised instruments, causing an infection which killed him.
BBmd TIL Wyatt Earp may have descended fom Americas first serial killers, the Harpe Brothers. Who murdered up to 40 people and even bashed an infant against a tree for crying. One was beheaded, his head left on a spike. That area is still known in Kentucky as “Harpe’s Head’
oBO4A TIL that the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Ancient Egyptian, was found in 1799 during the French military expedition to Egypt, by a French Army engineer captain named Pierre-Francois Bouchard. Bouchard had been part of a unit tasked with restoring an old fort, where he spotted the slab.
Pjbn TIL the populations of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are 26.3% and 26.8% female, respectively.
PYrDL TIL that Github have an archive program, where they physically store almost all influential open-source projects in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a project similar to the Svalbard Seed Vault. The intention is to aid future historians and technologists for at least a 1000 years.