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TIL about Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, a radio station in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide that would play dance music and encourage listeners to kill Tutsi

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M7AaW TIL there is a thunderstorm named Hector that appears every 6 months in the same exact spot.
j6dgQ TIL that "sheeple" is not actually internet slang or a term coined due to modern political discourse. The first documented use of the term appeared in a March 1945 Op-Ed of "The Musical Times' criticizing the BBC.
69ddm TIL Nike's famous slogan, "Just Do It," has a dark past. It was inspired by murderer Gary Gilmore. When he was sentenced to death in October he was asked if he had any last words. Facing down a five-man firing squad, Gilmore said: "Let's do it."
nYdo TIL… In 1954 the CIA deposed a democratically elected Guatemalan president and replaced him with a dictator to save investments in a banana company.
WBA9 TIL during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, 25,000 pigeons were released during the opening ceremony. When a cannon was fired, the pigeons begun to poop on the spectators watching the ceremony below.