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TIL the UN has each decade's international focus and concerns predecided.

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woEl8 TIL that the first political assassination in Roman history took place in 133 B.C when tribune Tiberius Gracchus tried to redistribute land to the poor, and was promptly beaten to death with wooden chairs by the Senate
9YpBX TIL George Clooney once pranked Brad Pitt by putting a pot plant bumper sticker, which had "fuck cops" written on it, on the back of his car, leading to him getting pulled over by the cops. Clooney figured, "There's no way you don't get pulled over."
9LbD TIL The Western black rhino has been officially declared extinct
PY9Lw TIL when Stephen Hawking met with the Pope in the Vatican, the Pope knelt down when he had trouble understand Hawking. This prompted one scientist in the room to say that "things certainly have changed since Galileo."
QNk7p TIL Cadbury Flake chocolate doesn't melt even if placed in a microwave