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TIL in 1966, thousands of Igbo people in Nigeria were massacred in a pogrom. So the Igbo people seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and formed the independent nation of Biafra, resulting in the Nigerian government deliberately starving millions of people in Biafra to death

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d8jYj TIL the most G force a person has survived was in the 2003 Chevy 500 when the car driven by Kenny Bräck made contact with Tomas Scheckter's car. This immediately resulted in Bräck's car impacting the catch fence that would record a peak of 214 g meaning he weighed 30000 lbs for a few seconds.
P1OVe Today I learned about the rescue of Bat 21 Bravo, the "largest, longest, and most complex search-and-rescue" operation during the Vietnam War.
Z8WGR TIL Sir Issac Newton suffered a breakdown which included sending wild accusatory letters to John Locke that he: "endeavoured to embroil me with woemen"
0ddnv TIL about the Vennbahn, a former railway line that runs across Germany, but the trackbed of the line is part of Belgium, so it creates 5 exclaves of Germany, one of which is only a house with a garden
4Y1J TIL the origin of the word “decimate” as we use it today came from the Roman military practice of punishing groups of soldiers by executing every 10th man