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TIL jenga is Swahili for build

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7rxwL TIL about lorentz transformations are very easy to visualize.
e0jjD TIL of the Battle of Gate Pā in 1864 where Maori troops defeated a British force six times larger.
PYbRg TIL in 2014 the beard of the Golden Mask of Tutankhamun fell off as it was cleaned by Museum employees, trying to cover up their mistake they tried to glue it back on with quick-dry plastic glue, leaving it off-center. This was later noticed and the employees got charged with "reckless destruction".
9YDbM TIL that seedless watermelons are not genetically engineered.
wL58o TIL Osama bin Laden left a will that he had written shortly after 9/11 in which he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad.