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TIL that January 6th was not the first insurection attempt against the US

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lxva TIL That Iran surpasses all Muslims countries in teaching evolution in its school curriculum.
epOAE TIL Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was also worshipped in some places as a goddess of war through her form called 'Aphrodite Areia'
Yp7Pv TIL The human eye primarily views the Northern Lights in faint colors and shades of gray and white. You can only really know what the true color of the aurora is by looking at it with a camera's LCD viewfinder screen or on a computer.
wLr56 TIL that the last World Pandemic started in Yunnan China in 1855 and cost 15m lives eventually petering out in the 1950's.
ldGr TIL By the end of the WW2 The Indian Army had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945.