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TIL Mexico has a state called the State of Mexico whose official name is just Mexico

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6EE77 TIL about the Circassian Genocide, where about 1,500,000 Circassians were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced by the Russian Empire in an attempt to make room for Russian colonization in Circassia.
Am6w TIL Michael Jackson did actually star in the Simpsons episode “Stark Raving Dad” but DIDN’T actually sing any of the songs due to contractual reasons with Sony.
eRQg TIL: An Indian man single-handedly planted a 1,360 acre forest that is home to a complex, thriving ecosystem
R9Jw TIL Hemingway sent F Scott Fitzgerald a draft of A Farewell to Arms, Fitzgerald sent it back with 10 pages of edits, to which Hemingway wrote back: “Kiss my ass.”
a7JL TIL that Tamerlane was a Turkish ruler whose tomb was discovered by Soviet archeologists in 1941. An inscription in the tomb read “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days later, the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded the USSR.