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TIL that there's a Fear of slime called Mysophobia

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oR5RA TIL that Equatorial Guinea’s first president, Francisco Macías Nguema, led a brutal regime that may have killed tens of thousands and reduced life expectancy to 30 years before being overthrown and executed in 1979.
oXr TIL that “Yes this is dog” picture is a screenshot from a gloomy Serbian movie about teen drug use from the 80s’.
neQV7 TIL The world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer in 1941 weighed 2,200 lbs, used 4 kilowatts of power, had 1,408 bytes of memory, and took 3 seconds to do a multiplication operation.
5Yx7r TIL Pocahontas (c. 1595-1617) was born Matoaka. The name "Pocahontas" (meaning "the naughty one" or "spoiled child"), a childhood nickname. In her last days, she went by Rebecca Rolfe. The marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas was the first recorded interracial marriage in American history.
OGn4L TIL Yorkshire has a little burbling creek that is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it