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TIL about the Kingdom of Semien, a Jewish kingdom in Africa that was effectively independent for over 1000 years and was the second most powerful African empire for 300 years.

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P0wG TIL Stanislav Petrov holds the title as “The man who saved the world” after stopping all out nuclear war
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