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TIL Pol Pot was the deadliest dictator, he had killed around 25% of cambodias population ranking above Mao Zedong, stalin and hitler (hitler’s death toll being around 17% of germanys population)

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yEZX TIL The Indian Army during World War II began the war, in 1939, numbering just under 200,000 men.By the end of the war, it had become the largest volunteer army in history, rising to over 2.5 million men in August 1945
j6yJN TIL there is a small Chinese ethnic group descended from about 50 Russian Cossacks resettled near Beijing in 1685
7rmWL TIL that Leo Tolstoy, Jules Verne, and J.R.R. Tolkien all spoke Esperanto, a 'universal' language created in the late 19th century.
4Xxd6 TIL Giving oxytocin to virgin rats could trigger maternal behaviours: the animals would build nests, lick or crouch over unfamiliar pups and even return lost pups to the nest.
5pb9 TIL. Keanu Reeves turned down a $10 million offer for the main role in Speed 2, in favor of touring with his band and playing Hamlet in a theater production