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TIL 40% of all female suicides are from India

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17kO TIL up until 1910, the Brazilian Navy routinely lashed black crewmen aboard their ships. After a crewman received 250 lashes, crews aboard 4 warships mutinied and threatened to shell Rio de Janeiro. Although Brazil did not honor promised amnesty for the mutineers, the lash was never used again.
R7WWw TIL One reason Action Comics #1 from 1938 is so valuable is because it had a coloring contest which required entrants to tear out the last page of the Superman story in order to enter
pYrrG TIL Pep Guardiola became the quickest football manager to 100 Champions League wins
VBwR4 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born.
4XW0g TIL that Earnest Hemingway was a spy for the US against Cuba from 1942 through 1944