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TIL there is a full antena dish inside airplane noses

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0d10p TIL the first recorded labor strike in history occurred in the 12th Century BCE in Ancient Egypt, when artisans tasked with building the necropolis (burial chambers) of King Ramses III struck repeatedly over insufficient rations
0dO11 TIL of Margaret Clitherow, who despite being pregnant with her fourth child, was pressed to death in York, England in 1586. The two sergeants who were supposed to perform the execution hired four beggars to do it instead. She was canonised in 1970 by the Roman Catholic Church
kJYN1 TIL Poland operated a massive Underground State within its occupied territories in WW2, (with a parliament, army and Civil Service)
9WQX TIL when asked if he knew his IQ, Stephen Hawking responded “I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers”
d8keZ TIL about the Bangladesh genocide of 1971. This was the largest genocide since the Holocaust, with upwards of 3,000,000 people dying.