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TIL about Thiaroye massacre where hundreds of African soldiers who helped defeat the Nazis in 1944 were shot to death by the French Army because they rightfully asked for their salary.

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R1Q1 TIL that having zero recollection of your drive to work or school (autopilot), has a name. It’s called Highway Hypnosis.
N4N TIL that there are more people of Lebanese descent in Brazil than there are in Lebanon itself.
AXed TIL due to its popularity with Muslims, until 1600 church leaders were calling coffee “the bitter invention of Satan”. Upon tasting coffee Pope Clement VIII declared, “This devil’s drink is so delicious…we should cheat the devil by baptizing it.”
rwM TIL there’s a dialect that’s spoken only by 2 people, who don’t like each other and don’t talk to each other.
Odmg TIL of a chimp named Nim Chimpsy that used sign language to express that he wanted to smoke marijuana