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TIL The Democratic Republic of the Congo is, by natural resources, the richest country in the world.

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v84j TIL Thomas Jefferson believed blacks were inherently inferior to whites, but were superior in musical ability.
XEQWQ TIL that Tukhachevskiy considered as the first military commander to use chemical weapons against its own people. It happened during "Tambov rebellion" when russian peasants resisted the forced confiscation of grain by Red Army.
XexD TIL after reading newspaper accounts of a family dying after their refrigerator leaked toxic gas into their home, Albert Einstein and a student invented a refrigeration system with no moving parts. Now known as the Einstein Refrigerator, modern refinements may see it soon hit the market.
awD5M TIL 25 years ago, a man began transforming his home village in India from one being destroyed by alcoholism and gambling to one obsessed with sobriety and chess. He started coaching people for free and now, of the 6,000 people in the village, at least 70% can play the game.
EgQlw TIL that there is a Brazilian car commercial with the characters from the 1980s Dungeon and Dragons cartoon