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TIL White farmers in South Africa are under attack. Violence against whites has reached epidemic proportions and the government is looking the other way.

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jN1oX TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead
69VPZ TIL the word for being angry at packaging is 'Wrap Rage', shoutout to battery packs!
GYaGg TIL when Winston Churchill started to use the V for Victory hand sign, he initially did so with the palm facing inward, unaware this was an offensive gesture in lower classes. He was basically flipping people off.
K1kQ TIL: OSHA allows all employees who have not received specific training to refuse cleaning biohazards like vomit, blood, feces, etc.
1aPZ8 TIL in 1989, Dermott, a town in Arkansas, passed a curfew law that allowed for punishment of the curfew-breaker's parents by putting them in stocks for two days. The punishment was remitted, among other things, because the city had no stocks nor had allocated funds to build them.