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TIL of Emil Abdelkader, Islamic leader of a resistance movement against French occupation in Algeria. He later prevented a massacre of Christians in Damascus, and France awarded him the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur for this act.

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xVM8g TIL the U.S. government saved every public tweet from 2006 through 2017 Starting in 2018, the Library of Congress decided to only keep tweets on “a very selective basis,” including elections and those dealing with something of national interest, like public policy.
9Y4Rp TIL, The Macaw species that inspired the movie 'Rio' is now extinct in the wild
M7jm0 TIL Volkswagen AG, the largest automaker by sales and seventh largest company in the world, is controlled by a single family descended from Ferdinand Porsche.
9wOom TIL that the electricity bills of a Japanese bullet train on a 622km (386 mi) journey can be paid off with the ticket income of 16 paying-travelers on its 1,324 seats, or on average, just one passenger in each carriage.
gel7 TIL that farmers allow the “Tree Goats of Morocco” to climb Argan trees to eat the fruit because their poop (consisting of digested clumps of seeds) is then pressed to create the sought-after Argan oil. Argan oil is commonly found in the popular Ogx Shampoo bottle… effectively making it Shampoop.