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TIL currently in Mauritania 680,000 or 20% of the population is enslaved.

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ZeYa TIL that according to scientists, all of the mosquitoes in the world could probably be killed off with minimal permanent ecological damage.
6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
yWJX TIL that in Alaska, it’s been legal for adults to possess and use small amounts of cannabis since 1975.
oRlEo TIL Gemini Ultra AI Costed An Estimated 191M Just To Train
9kaD TIL Scientists have been developing a way to teach humans skills via functional magnetic resonance imaging, much in kind of the same way that Neo downloads skills in the movie “The Matrix”