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TIL that during the Rwandan genocide, a priest lured around 2000 Tutsis into his church under promise of protection, then ordered the church with all those inside bulldozed and shot the survivors.

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kpeE TIL that the word “homophobia” didn’t emerge until 1971, and the psychologist who coined it did so in order to argue that it wasn’t homosexuals who had a mental disorder (as then thought) but those who irrationally hated them
pJPO TIL Tennessee only has one naturally formed lake, the rest are all man-made
M7LBm TIL while laying underwater cable in the Chicago river a diver discovered a 40ft submarine. Inside he found the remains of a human and a dog. Their identity is still a mystery more than a century later.
MXJb TIL Maximillian Kolbe, a Catholic Priest, gave his life for a man he had never met in Auschwitz. He stated “I am an old man, no one will miss me. He has a wife and family. Take me instead.”
VO5B TIL In Australia, cavities in the ground left by fossils will sometimes fill with a liquid containing dissolved opals. When the liquid evaporates, the opal remains, forming opalised fossils. The best example of this is a 6m long Plesiosaur skeleton, completely made of opal (more sources in comments)