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TIL that the term "Down Syndrome" was adopted globally at the behest of Mongolia to replace the offensive term 'Mongoloid'

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nBR9 TIL ancient Egypt was formed from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3000 BC, and the pharaohs wore a double-crown, with one half, the White Crown, representing Upper Egypt, and the other half, the Red Crown, representing Lower Egypt.
5YNDP TIL the Soviet Union successfully put out a gas well fire that was burning for 1074 days with a underground nuke
E1AEp TIL Sadly, Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in Superman '78, committed suicide with drugs and alcohol in May of 2018. Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade died by suicide in June 2018, but Kidder's death was not ruled suicide until August.
xVvYw TIL That Neil Armstrong's NASA application was a week late and if it weren't for his friend, Dick Day, secretly slipping it into the pile of on-time applications, he would have been rejected.
EVKd TIL Egypt sued the Jews for the property they “borrowed” before the exodus in the court of Alexander the great the jews countersued for 400+ years of unpaid wages for 600,000 men and the egyptians promptly dropped the case