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TIL about Boston Brahmins - upper class English colonists who saw themselves as the social equivalent of Brahmins in the Indian caste system

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R5l4w TIL That avant-garde British pop band "Art of Noise" takes it's name from a 1913 Futurist manifesto, called "The Art of Noise" - Which argues that the modern human ear has grown accustom to industrial noise, and now will seek more exciting sounds in music to combat this.
ZG9v TIL that the Galileo probe experienced 230g of decceleration when entering Jupiters atmosphere, equivalent to a change in velocity from 5000mph to 0 in one second.
GAVv4 TIL of the South African Taxi Wars, an ongoing turf war by South African taxi operators over passengers and lucrative routes caused by an unregulated transportation industry.
OG4AR TIL that it wasn’t just Smallpox that was unintentionally introduced to the Americas, but also bubonic plague, measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, cholera, diphtheria, typhus, malaria, leprosy, and yellow fever. Indigenous Americans had no immunity to any of these diseases.
lo6pB TIL Leonidas was 60 years old during the battle of Thermopyle (depicted in 300). His last stand would ultimately contribute to the preservation of the whole of Greece