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TIL Greek Kings ruled parts of India until 10 AD

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VJ1Q TIL the longest reigning empress of Austria, was assassinated in 1898 in Geneva. Her assassin initially wanted to kill the Duke of Orleans, but missed his chance, and simply decided to kill the next member of the royal family he saw.
8elKK TIL: The first item/invention to break the sound barrier was the whip. The cracking is a sonic boom.
6Evg7 TIL The Girl Scouts were offered an anonymous $100,000 donation, with the only condition being it couldn’t be used to support Transgender girls. They turned it down, and launched a counter online funding campaign that made $300,000.
jR5j TIL That the USA is the number one oil producing country in the world.
6E4PY TIL that in 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that the US unjustly took 73 million acres of tribal land from the Sioux, including the sacred Black Hills. The Supreme Court the US to pay recompense totaling over $1 billion. The Sioux have never taken the money, instead demanding the return of the land.