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D1mwj TIL of the Hindu-German Conspiracy, an attempt to organize a revolt in the British Raj during WW1 by Indian nationalists. It received support from Germany, Turkey and the Irish republican movement. A major mutiny was prevented after the US Ghadar Party was infiltrated by British intelligence agents.
KO5xQ TIL: The Byzantines themselves never stopped calling themselves Romans till the very fall of the empire. After the crowning of Charlemagne as emperor in 800, they were keen on viewing Byzantium as a Greek empire. But they s felt rather angry when they were called Greeks and not Roman.
j6oMR TIL: Vietnam has a few unique monsters, one is the Ma Vú Dài, a lady ghost with long breasts that attacks victims at night to forcefully breastfeed them until they fall unconscious. In the 60s, prisoners in Saigon reported seeing a women with long breasts force feeding cellmates.
e0lE4 TIL abou the paradox of intolerance, which states that a society with unlimited tolerance will be destroyed by the intolerant because said society would tolerate them.
NxLN TIL that Al Gore’s wife, Tipper Gore, wrote a book and founded an organization that advocated for censoring rock music and cited Dungeons and Dragons as a path leading children to kill.