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TIL the Aztecs were not a single society or nation but many separate tribes that shared a common language and culture . The tribe in power during the Spanish Conquest was the Mexica tribe, the country’s eventual namesake.

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MAYB TIL London 2012 was the first Olympic Games ever to be completed without a single fatality in construction. Over 60 were killed in the construction of the Sochi games
wLR5Y TIL One of the first ever works of post apocalyptic fiction was written in 1826 by Mary Shelley, author Frankestein. In it, she describes a dystopian future in which earth in the 21st century is ravaged by a mysterius pandemic
KvyB TIL in 1959 Soviet Premiere Nikita Khruschchev was denied a request to visit Disneyland during a trip to the United States. He became enraged and stated “But just now I was told that I could not go to Disneyland. I asked ‘Why not? What is it? Do you have rocket-launching pads there?’ I do not know.”
mwao TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products which caused up to 10,000 people in the U.S. alone to contract HIV. After they found out the drug was contaminated, they pulled it off the U.S. market and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they could still make money.
0wyay TIL that Maya Moore, the best women’s basketball player in the world, retired early to fight for criminal justice reform. She helped overturn a wrongly convicted man who served 22 years of a 50-year sentence. His name is Jonathan Irons.