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TIL of Equatorial Guinea’s 1975 Christmas Eve massacre, in which roughly 150 political dissenters were executed in a stadium by soldiers wearing Santa Claus costumes to the tune of Mary Hopkin’s “Those Were the Days.”

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epA8J TIL that Julius Caesar suffered from seizures likely caused by epilepsy.
nWNQ9 TIL SDH subtitles means Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of hearing, which is why those subtitles feature ambient noises such as grunts, sighs, PA announcement etc and speaker identification while watching content.
X5l6 TIL that a cat named Tama is a manager at a railway station in Japan, a job which pays her in cat food. During her tenure ridership has increased 10%, leading her to be promoted to super-station manager in 2008.
x6j4D TIL SOME Caucasian people can't tell Asian accents apart (vice versa). I didn't realise it went both ways! I have always been able to tell Asian accents apart, from Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Filo, Indonesia and Viet. Today my Australian friend told me this and I said we have the same issues with
OomAL TIL the Talmud instructs that no boy should have foreskin removed if two brothers had died from complications of the procedure. By the 12th century, this was said to be based on maternal descent. Rabbinic texts likely offer the earliest recorded evidence for hemophilia, the genetic blood disorder.