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TIL that a man who claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ led a rebellion that led to the deaths of over 20 million people (at least 3 million more than the death toll of World War I)

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newQo TIL that Great Britain once had a Cones Hotline for people to report rogue traffic cones. The Cones Hotline was launched in 1992 for citizens to report traffic cones on the road for no obvious reason. The policy was mocked for both being comically pointless and for being a waste of government money.
WEXo TIL that the two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, in the Rwandan Genocide were designated by European colonists somewhat arbitrarily. A Hutu could become a Tutsi by acquiring ten cows.
ADLrx TIL, a coywolf (or woyote)is a canid hybrid descended from coyotes, eastern wolves and gray wolves.
DQDQp TIL Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Olympic
5Ky9 TIL of the Crooked Forest, a grove in trees in Poland that grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks. No one knows why they grow like this.