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TIL that political opponents used to insult each other with the label "Pharaoh" before Hitler came around.

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4X8Rg TIL 85% of Nigerians view China’s influence positively, with only 10% expressing a negative view, making Nigeria the most pro-Chinese nation in the world
LgGd TIL if you stack every atom in the human body on top of the next, the total length would be roughly 73-Light Years.
b6Gmp TIL that a landing gear door from MH370 — the Malaysian plane deliberately crashed into the Indian Ocean by its pilot in 2014 — was found years later being used as a washing board by a fisherman’s wife in Madagascar
bBE4 TIL of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who was a female Soviet Sniper with over 300 comfirmed kills. She is considered as the most successful female sniper in the world.
KYZk6 TIL 17-20 people on the waiting list for an organ transplant die every day in the United States and only slightly more than half of the 100,000+ people on the list are expected to receive an organ within five years.