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TIL that there is a campaign to rid world of the Flash Player Plugin

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x6BYw TIL that Katō Kanji, leader of the fleet faction, shouted that "war with America starts now" after the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty.
XEXk6 TIL about the Icarians, a French-based utopian socialist movement in the United States, established by the followers of politician and journalist Étienne Cabet, who invented the word "communism" in 1839.
nZAW TIL The high-pitched sounds housecats make to solicit food may mimic the cries of a hungry human infant, making them particularly hard for humans to ignore
BgXmK TIL of witch camps in Ghana where women accused of witchcraft flee to for safety. Some of these camps are over 100 years old
VlZG TIL Japanese knotweed is listed by the World Conservation Union as one of the world’s worst invasive species. It damages concrete foundations, buildings, flood defences, roads and architectural sites. In 2010, the UK released into the wild a Japanese insect that feeds on Japanese knotweed.