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TIL today marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide, when 1 million people were killed in 100 days

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xrgD TIL that Debra Oberlin, a former president of a defunct chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), was arrested for drunk driving.
QNNM9 TIL The London Underground has its own subspecies of mosquito that lives exclusively in the stations and tunnels
JXQj TIL The Cuyahoga River was so polluted it actually caught on fire. 13 fires later the gov’t was spurred onto to create the Clean Water Act and the EPA
JoOQ TIL the Pillars of Creation don’t actually exist anymore and have been destroyed over 1000 years ago.
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