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TIL: The Arab slave-trade trafficked 10-18 million people from Africa, Europe and Asia to the Middle east.

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x6495 TIL about the Ludlow Massacre when a corporation used the National Guard to kill the company's employees for daring to strike
5Ym8P TIL the highest-ranking Billboard 200 death metal album of all time is from the virtual band Dethklok from the show Metalocalpyse. Frontman and co-creator Brendan Small performs the vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboard, and bass in recordings; in the show he voices most of the main characters.
d8lX8 TIL about the growing North American problem of jumping worms brought in from East Asia. They disturb the soil which then erode easily, dries out quickly, and generally makes poor habitat for many plants
NMBJ TIL The original PS1 is a very high-end audiophile CD Player
jNPXE TIL of the Sahara pump theory, which states that in about 10,000 years from now, the change in the orientation of the rotational axis of Earth's poles will move the North African Monsoon far enough north to convert the Sahara back into a tropical climate, as it was during 5,000–10,000 years ago