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TIL that humans and our livestock account for 96% of all mammal biomass on Earth

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jwGN TIL during the Nanking Massacre, it is estimated Japanese soldiers raped 20,000 women. They were often killed after being raped, often through explicit mutilation or by stabbing a bayonet, long stick of bamboo, or other objects into the vagina. Young children were cut open to allow them to be raped.
Yp9XA Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, created her own climbing equipment from scratch out of old curtains and the cover of her car.
mxAeO TIL In 2009, 2 Egyptian fishermen were captured by Somali Pirates, The Egyptian hostages escaped by attacking and seizing the pirate’s guns and machetes and reversed the kidnapping by kidnapping the pirates to Yemen, They were offered flights from Yemen to Egypt but took their boats home instead.
5Y6a8 TIL Of all the high-ranking members of the Nazi party – many of whom were Catholics – only Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated, and he was not excommunicated for his involvement in killing millions of people (mainly Jews), but because he married a Protestant woman.
JYM54 TIL that the Babylonians created the 7 day week because there are 7 celestial bodies visible to the naked eye (The Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn).