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TIL that the Eastern Roman Empire once sent troops to Ethiopia to support Ethiopia's invasion of Yemen

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epgNL TIL about Kwanzaa, an African American holiday created in 1966 as an alternative to Christmas.
OoXl7 TIL The 2003 Gubernatorial election for California (which Arnold Schwarzenegger won) had 135 candidates. California has 80 districts so it was impossible for every candidate to be placed at the top of the ballet in at least one district. Also Gary Coleman and porn star Mary Carey were candidates.
Jejm TIL: In 1924 the KKK planned to hold a major rally in South Bend to send a message to Notre Dame students. “Instead, the only message delivered that morning came from Notre Dame’s students, who pummeled the Klansmen as they disembarked from their train.”
nWDVW TIL about the Osage Reign of Terror, a series of at least eighteen murders with the end goal of gaining the victims' oil rights through inheritance
VWJ0 TIL that Humans will create more information in the form of data in the next 2 days than was created in all of history up until the year 2003.