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TIL of the Moriori genocide, a pacifist people of the Chatham Islands who were massacred and enslaved by New Zealand Maori in 1835 after being discovered by British Whalers in 1791

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8aVr4 TIL In some jurisdictions, dancers at strip clubs are only permitted to expose breasts and/or genitals when performing on a raised platform; they must be dressed before their feet touch the venue's main floor. Managers responsible for enforcing this rule communicate it as 'the floor is lava'.
695ym TIL a village in Kerala, India was renamed Saddam Beach during the Gulf War in solidarity. Many people from there worked in the Gulf.
GAYO7 TIL that the United States is the second oldest country in the world when going by the date of the current constitution
9dP7 TIL a woman tricked doctors into thinking she could give birth to rabbits. She shoved the rabbits into her vagina before ‘birthing’ them
1aNLD TIL a sanitary inventor named Thomas Crapper improved the U-bend pipe, and patented the floating ballcock to prevent indoor toilets from exploding.