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TIL Teddy Roosevelt enthusiastically supported the genocide of American Indians, who he perceived to be an ‘alien race’

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BrBQr TIL of the Third Plague Pandemic- an outbreak of bubonic plague that killed 15 million people between 1855-1960. In Hong Kong, where the bacterium responsible was identified (Y. pestis), the plague recurred every year for 30 years.
nWnZ9 TIL Otávio Jordão da Silva Cantanhede, a 20-year-old Brazilian amateur football referee,was lynched, beheaded and quartered by football spectators after he stabbed a player to death in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013
kO7me TIL of the incredible rescue of a dead soviet space station in 1985
v1YAR TIL Taco Bell has locations in 22 countries including China, Iceland and Guam but none in Mexico. They tried but failed twice to start locations there. Mexicans had trouble identifying what certain items were because of their inauthentic names. They had to rebrand the “Crunchy Taco” to a “Tacostada”
ZwlD TIL that both the Aztecs and the Buddhist Jataka have an almost identical tale about the rabbit on the moon.