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TIL Members of the Nation of Islam believe white people were created a few thousand years ago by an evil black scientist named Yakub

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x6bbw TIL in 2016, a suicide bomber carrying explosives in his laptop boarded Daallo Airlines, with the intention of destroying the aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the bomb detonated, resulting in a hole in the plane and the ejection of the bomber from the aircraft. he was the only casualty.
OlN7 TIL the man that figured out how old Planet Earth really is was the same one who discovered world-wide environmental lead contamination which eventually lead to leaded gasoline’s banning.
9YZgr TIL that Homework was considered hugely controversial in the 1800s and early 1900s, when physicians crusaded against it, in 1901, California even banned homework for anyone under the age of 15
vd54 TIL that men get piss all over everything because of Plateau-Rayleigh instability - not necessarily because our aim is off
4Xgoa TIL the creator of Mother’s Day, Anna Jarvis, became increasingly upset at the commercialisation of the holiday and in 1943 even started a petition to rescind it