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TIL that Burkina Faso meaning “land of incorruptible people” used to be called The Republic of Upper Volta after the Volta river with its flag representing the 3 main tributaries: the Black, White, and the Red Volta.

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vZk8 TIL that when Caesar first set foot on Africa, he tripped over, but saved himself from embarrassment by shouting, “Africa, I have tight hold of you!”
W7Eg4 TIL of Wouter Basson, aka 'Dr Death', former head of the South Africa Secret Services’ biological and chemical program ‘Project Coast’ from 1981 to 1995, that introduced drugs into SA to chemically suppress the black population. Charged but acquitted of human rights violations, including murder.
6Ey1w TIL: That studies confirmed that the ancestors of Native Americans left Siberia about 20,000-30,000 years ago.
DJMe TIL George Washington said he’d never set foot in London again, so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Great Britain they also sent dirt from Virginia to put under the statue.
y6eM TIL that 70% of Mongolian nomads have solar power since 2013. The sun shines 250 days on average each year in Mongolia. It shines, even during the frigid winter days, on the hundreds of thousands of nomads who still roam the steppes, herding animals and living in dome-like tents calling gers.