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TIL That Christopher Columbus punished a man found guilty of stealing corn by having his ears and nose cut off and then selling him into slavery

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JYAAl TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
9wNwX TIL that around 2020, anthropogenic mass (human-made material) was expected to exceed all living biomass on earth
W7o1Y TIL: After all that has been revealed at this point, the Inge Lotz murder has still not been re-opened
LPOZ TIL the first person in history whose name we know is Kushim, an accountant from Mesopotamia who lived around 3200 B.C.
XYwQ TIL there’s a medical condition called “Witzelsucht”, where a damage of the frontal lobe causes a tendency to make puns, or tell inappropriate jokes or pointless stories in socially inappropriate situations