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TIL outraged that President Mugabe was going to Brussels to conclude an aid and trade deal & no one was challenging him over his human rights abuses, Peter Tatchell attempted a citizen's arrest on him. Tatchell was badly beaten by bodyguards, but it helped make Mugabe an international pariah.

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l70xA TIL that 110 years ago members of the Colorado National Guard opened fire and killed 21 coal miners and their family members when they were on strike for better working conditions.
4k4dN TIL hydrogen cyanide, more commonly know as Zyklon B, has been detected in the interstellar medium (space) and in the atmospheres of red giants.
b9pjZ TIL about Yasuke, a former Mozambique Slave turned Samurai during the Japanese Hegemony and unification wars. He was well respected by the Japanese and was considered to have the strength of ten men, and was one Oda Nobunaga's most trusted warriors.
AD7Kd Til - The capacity to lie has also been claimed to be possessed by non-humans in language studies with great apes. In one instance, gorilla Koko, when asked who tore a sink from the wall, pointed to one of her handlers and then laughed.
l7OYa TIL that the plot of “West Side Story” was conceived by Jerome Robbins in the 1940s when his then-boyfriend, Montgomery Clift, suggested a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet but with gangs in New York. The idea stuck with Jerome, who called Clift a “theatrical genius” early in their affair.