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TIL there were 3 fatal mountain lion attacks in cali between 1994 and 2004

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Z8gYp TIL:1885 the King of Belgium established a fake charity & got international agreement to let it have control of an India-sized chunk of Africa. For years he fooled the world that he was helping Africans, while he was really enslaving people & made roughly $1 billion. At least two million people died
mwrx TIL when asked about the attack on pearl harbour in 1941 Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamatoto said “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve”
QJNL TIL That Until the 1800s, Turkish women suspected of cheating were tied in a sack with cats and thrown into the ocean.
neXkW TIL: Jake Adelstein, a Jewish-American reporter who investigated the Japanese crime world for over a decade, convinced some of his underworld allies and former yakuza bosses to play Yakuza 3, a video game where you play as a former member of the yakuza. The former bosses ended up loving the game.
VMpm8 TIL about Chess960 - a game created by Bobby Fischer which uses the same board and pieces of regular chess, but randomly shuffles the home row to prevent players from relying on memorized strategies and instead rely on their own creativity