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TIL the “Love you Forever” children’s book is actually about the author’s “dead babies.”

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oB0eY TIL about the Civil Cooperation Bureau, an innocuous-sounding civilian agency in apartheid South Africa - it was a actually a death squad responsible for a number of murders and controlled by the Minister of Defence, Magnus Malan
YapA TIL That when Napoléon I emancipated the Jews he stated “I will never accept any proposals that will obligate the Jewish people to leave France, because to me the Jews are the same as any other citizen in our country” the Russian Orthodox Church labelled him as the ‘Anti-Christ and The Enemy of God’
wLnjW TIL that when France colonized Madagascar, Queen Ranavalona III was exiled to Algeria, where she lived a modest life and volunteered for the Red Cross during World War I.
d8lKr TIL lupines can signal to a bee that the pollen rewards are gone or almost gone. After pollination occurs, the petals change color as a way of saying “no more here, try the next flower…” This re-directs the bee to a flower that needs pollination.
Oo0Q1 TIL that in 1838 Edgar Allen Poe wrote a book about a 4 man ship crew that ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker. In 1884 a 4 man ship crew ate their cabin boy, Richard Parker.