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TIL that Tukhachevskiy considered as the first military commander to use chemical weapons against its own people. It happened during "Tambov rebellion" when russian peasants resisted the forced confiscation of grain by Red Army.

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5r6P TIL Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa is home to 2,200 species of plant - more than the entire United Kingdom
Z8JWD TIL Police almost arrested Gary Ridgeway, The Green River killer, years earlier, in 1983. A boyfriend of a victim had seen her get into his truck before she vanished. The next day, he went with her father and found it; it belonged to Ridgeway. The tip wasn’t enough to get police to arrest him.
GOeJ TIL: In Spanish, “esposas” means both “handcuffs” and “wives” and it is not a coincidence
awWM TIL Aaron McGruder, the author of the Boondocks, called Condoleeza Rice a mass murderer to her face.
JaDl TIL that last year in Norway, a fox lured by a dying-rabbit app stole the phone, made calls, texts.