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TIL that the Finnish Civil War of 1918 was the deadliest civil conflict in the world in relation to the population until the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

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R5BpQ TIL in 1933 there was an alleged conspiracy by wealthy businessmen to stage a coup against FDR and install a Marine Corps general as dictator
W7wY9 TIL that in medieval times, animals were put on trials and sentenced to prison or even execution.
9dQX TIL: We have Motion-induced blindness (just stare at the dot in the middle for 10 sec)
e0ydL TIL George Washington Carver created Worcestershire sauce.
XxWk TIL that Google will award $30M to the first privately funded teams to successfully 1) land a robot on the Moon, 2) navigate it for more than 500m on its surface, and 3) transmit back high-def videos and images of the feat. Countries like Brazil, Chile, India, Hungary have joined the competition.