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TIL in 1804, a Haitian force comprised mostly of former slaves went house-to-house torturing and killing most of the remaining European population. Between 3,000 and 5,000 were killed.

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l1AB TIL in 1990, a 15-yo Kuwaiti girl testified to US Congress that Kuwaiti babies were being taken out of their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of an ambassador & that her testimony was part of a PR campaign to sell the war to the public.
VAQ0 TIL that an Ethiopian girl was kidnapped and attacked until a pride of lions chased her attackers off and stayed to defend her until help arrived!
6EDXX TIL that an artist set up an installation in a Namibian desert to play Toto's Africa for all eternity
4koQ6 TIL that to prepare for his role as Kyle Reese in the 1984 film The Terminator, Michael Biehn studied the Polish Resistance Movement of WW2.
QDva TIL The last king of Greece, Constantine II, won Greece’s first Olympic gold medal since 1912 in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also lived in exile for 40 years.