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TIL that the roundest object in the world was handcrafted by one man because no machine in the world could match his precision.

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7rPrZ TIL there is an all-female anti-poaching combat unit in Zimbabwe called Akashinga ("the brave ones")
VBkn8 TIL In 1405, the Chinese admiral Zheng He explored Vietnam, Java, Sri Lanka, Mecca and East Africa with 62 ships and 30000 men. The knowledge, ideas, and exotic goods he took back home created an interest in foreign countries which contributed to China's role in world trade in later centuries.
YpjK7 TIL about Clementine Barnabet, an American teenager who murdered and beheaded 35 people with an ax due to her belief in a voodoo cult called the Church of Sacrifice. Sentenced to life in prison at age 18 in in 1912, she escaped in 1923 and was never heard of again.
PYkyL Today I learned that there's a California University and an Indiana University, and both of them are located in Pennsylvania.
16nyr TIL about the death of Poltergeist actress Dominique Dunne. She was strangled into a coma by her ex-boyfriend and passed away 5 days later. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served just three and a half years in prison.