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TIL that after his mother died Shaka Zulu had pregnant women and their husbands killed, and also had cows slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like

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YpdWd TIL of the National Defence Corps Incident. When a South Korean force of 406,000 suffered 300,000 casualties from starvation, disease and mass desertion due to High ranking officers embezzling funds earmarked for the purchase of food supplies.
Ld5V TIL that as a consequence of HIV/AIDS, life expectancy in Swaziland has fallen from 61 years in 2000 to 32 years in 2009.
rLMo TIL that in the Aboriginal Australian language of Ritharrŋu the polite response to a sneeze is “Klas bin gurruwan” meaning “You have released nose-water.” The sneezer then responds with “Bla mela nana!” meaning “I am dry now.”
9MYr TIL outing CIA agents wasn’t made illegal until 1982 after a former agent published several bestsellers which named thousands of CIA personnel
b9On0 TIL of the Watermelon War, a riot in Panama City (1856) which started because a drunken American wouldn't pay 5 cents for a slice of watermelon. It led to the death of 15 Americans and 2 Panamanians.