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TIL There are 9 million more women than men in Russia.

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pYGe4 TIL about the Nauruan Civil War. It went on for 10 years, killed more than 1/3 of the population and ended when the German's intervened. Shortly afterwards, it was annexed by Germany.
jorE TIL Six years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while playing the organ at her church
omZr TIL In 1730 as a pirate named Olivier Levasseur was about to be hanged he threw a coded message into the crowd whilst shouting “Find my treasure, ye who may understand it!” Some of the treasure still hasn’t been found.
R7a69 TIL that the treadmill on the International Space Station rests on dampers and springs, to prevent it from shaking the entire station whenever astronauts use it.
mxBWO TIL some elephants eat off a specific tree to induce labor - the same tree which kenyan women brew a tea of for the same purpose