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TIL While common among humans, facial expressions of anger and aggression are rare in great apes, and are not described for gorillas and orangutans

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x6XB5 TIL in the 1600s Kimpa Vita, an aristocrat in the Kongo Empire - the most powerful in Central Africa - started a new version of Catholicism: Antonianism. Gaining thousands of converts from peasantry and nobility, she took over the capital city of Sao Salvador. Aged 22, she burned at the stake.
9Ao6 TIL after it was found a black girl was fabricating a gang rape allegation, Al Sharpton accused the prosecutor of being a racist, and stated the prosecutor was one of the rapists.
vLpR TIL Marvin Gaye died from a gunshot to the heart at point blank range after intervening in an argument between his parents. His father fired the fatal shot.
pY65N TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2
ZpPbQ TIL in 2005, Sony sold music CDs that installed hidden software without notifying users (a rootkit). When this was made public, Sony released an uninstaller, but forced customers to provide an email to be used for marketing purposes. The uninstaller itself exposed users to arbitrary code execution.