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TIL In 1999, Yeltsin signed a union treaty with Russia and Belarus. The agreement commits the two former Soviet states to merging into a confederal state

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mPGM TIL During The First Opium War of 1839, 19,000 British troops fought against 200,000 Chinese. The Chinese had 20,000 casualties, the British just 69. The war marked the start of the “Century of Humiliation” in China.
WkgrN TIL Actors that are recovering from a cocaine addiction that have to snort coke on screen can use powdered baby laxative as a prop. The regular stand in for coke on screen, powdered vitamin D is used to cut real cocaine and the familiar flavor can lead to relapses.
kOboe TIL the word “loot” came from Hindi and Sanskrit on India during colonial times until England adopted it into the English language
ZDoD TIL that a Freedom of Information request by Uk’s The Sunday Times newspaper in 2012 revealed that Blair’s government considered knighting Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad.
ANkwo TIL of Malthusians. They believe a finite earth can’t sustain mankind’s indefinite expansion unless checked by law, war, famine, or natural disaster