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TIL Joe Strummer, from The Clash, wept when he learned “Rock the Casbah” was written on a bomb dropped during Operation Desert Storm.

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GYyK7 TIL the Spanish once granted automatic Spanish citizenship to Irish people. Due to their belief that the Irish were a group of ancient Spanairds who left Spain with a Spanish King called Míl Espáine to settle the Island of Ireland.
ADZXd TIL Mikhail Kalashnikov regretted creating the AK-47. In a letter to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2012, he said never intended for the rifle to become the preferred weapon in conflicts around the world.
X7aD TIL historically the Jews were never slaves in Egypt, and therefore Exodus is an archetypal myth about the process of revolution.
mpWP TIL that the Confucius genealogical line as the longest family tree in history, with 86 recorded generations over 2,500 years: the Chinese philosopher (551 to 479 BCE) is thought to have 3 million descendants all over the world.
b91dQ TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.