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TIL the second-deadliest massacre during South African apartheid was a pogrom perpetrated against the Indian community. It lasted for 3 days and resulted in 142 deaths

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QLja TIL When they return to Earth, astronauts have to fill out government travel vouchers as if they were on regular business trip. Link to Apollo 11 voucher in comments.
kOgXg TIL the phrase survival of the fittest is popularly wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. It was coined by a philosopher called Herbert Spencer seven years before Darwin's publication of his theory of natural history, The Origin of the Species.
4X1Go TIL Craig Ferguson won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
7r1or TIL the "Cheerios effect" is an interesting fluid dynamics phenomenon that happens in cereal bowls. When there are just a few bits of cereal left floating on top of the milk, they tend to cluster together in the middle or around the edges of the bowl, rather than dispersing across the surface.
1NXX TIL that Lord Byron’s nickname for William Wordsworth was William Turdsworth