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TIL about Saparmurat Niyazov, ex-dictator of Turkmenistan. He exiled dogs from the capital, banned wearing makeup on TV or founded holiday for melons. Lipsyncing? Also banned.

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OwR1 TIL that even after extinction, the Dodo is still the national animal of Mauritius.
b94LZ TIL During the Second World War, the Japanese army poisoned more than 1,000 water wells in Chinese villages to study cholera and typhus outbreaks. Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas over Chinese cities or distributed them by means of saboteurs in rice fields and along roads.
OoZaL TIL a radio station organized a bonfire to burn Beatles records after they claimed they were "more popular than Jesus". The next day, the station’s broadcast tower was struck by lightning, damaging equipment and sending the news director to the hospital
b97Jp TIL the first thing we develop in the womb is an anus. For the first few seconds of life we are floating anuses .
J408 TIL that, during the conquest of Mexico and due to lack of gunpowder, three Spanish conquistadors climbed the Popocatépetl volcano (17,802 ft/5,426 m) and hung themselves using ropes into the crater to get sulfur for their cannons and succeded. Six times.