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TIL that the US voted to keep Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge as the UN representative for Cambodia up until the 90s, twenty years after the Khmer Rouge had been destroyed by the Vietnamese

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k54W TIL Henry Ford popularized charcoal briquettes after he noticed noticed a large amount of his money being wasted on wood used in the manufacturing process of his model A cars. Ford passed off the briquette business to a relative named Kingsford and the rest is history.
LwdZ TIL Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, believes the earth is secretly controlled by giant inter-dimensional lizards who came to earth to harvest gold that strengthens their lizard nervous systems.
R7gj1 TIL Owen J. Badggett became legendary as the only person to shoot down a Japanese airplane with an M1911 pistol, hitting the pilot in the head.
5vPP TIL: A South African doctor tried to create a virus that would only affect black people.
e0yy4 TIL turtles and lizards are more closely related to birds than they are to each other.