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TIL of the Moriori, a Pacifist people who, when being wiped out by a neighbouring Polynesian tribe, decided that their non-violent beliefs were more important than their own survival.

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WkgPX TIL the last English knight to be publicly degraded (stripped of knighthood) was Francis Mitchell in 1628. He’d committed extortion. His spurs were broken and thrown out, his belt cut, and his sword broken over his head. He was called "no longer a Knight but Knave" and led to the Tower of London.
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r7gy TIL humans have a relatively low level of genetic variation because we are all descendants of ~10,000 humans that survived a massive extinction event ~70,000 years ago. One tribe y'all.