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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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Jb6m TIL the US military investigated building a “gay bomb”, which would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other.
pYnjQ TIL NATO logo does not say NATO backwards. NATO is an acronym for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. OTAN is an acronym for the French translation of that. Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord.
GAl6Q TIL that it's called "splooting", when squirrels and other animals lay flat to cool themselves down.
0o8N TIL the world’s biggest bird was a prehistoric seagull with a 24ft wingspan that could fly at 10m per second.
4Xe8J TIL that the "thicc" "succ" way of spelling comes from the gang Crips not wanting to use the letter combination "CK" because it stands for "Crip Killer"