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TIL in 1906, the raja of Bali and his entourage of priests, guards, women and children marched in trance towards the Dutch invaders. They took bullets from the Dutch army, and stabbed each other with ritual daggers until every single one died. This was a ritualistic mass suicide as final resistance

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AD584 TIL our species is continuing to evolve in 3 ways: natural selection (by which many are adapting to malaria and high altitudes), random mutations (increasingly likely as more older males become fathers), and a mysterious genetic repair tool that biases eggs and sperm to C and G bases over A or T.
VBXx8 TIL The bones of the fallen soldiers at Waterloo were exhumed from mass graves, ground down into bone-meal and used in the production of sugar at nearby sugar manufacturing plants. Also bones of the fallen were commonly ground into bone-meal and used as fertilizer.
Rv04 TIL life inside Movile Cave has been separated from the outside world for the past 5.5 MILLION YEARS. The ecosystem is based completely on chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis.
OG4Me TIL there is a modern world capital that is an uninhabitable ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is a modern Pompeii, destroyed by volcanic eruptions in the late 1990s
kOAbE TIL James Avery (Uncle Phil) served in the US Navy in Vietnam from 1968-69. He then moved to San Diego to write poetry and TV scripts for PBS and won an Emmy for his effort. He got a scholarship from UC San Diego and graduated there with a Bachelor’s degree in Drama and Literature in 1976.