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After Haiti gained independence in 1804 it had to pay France 150 million francs for the human slaves that became free, which France considered as French propert...

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Portugal can get 5 teams in the Champions League next season

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TIL of "airplane film"

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TIL that Byzantine princess Maria Palaiologina was sent to marry Mongol ruler Hulagu Khan in 1265, but he died before she arrived, so she married his son Abaqa ...

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Wikipedia:Glossary

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TIL that Nintendo game designer Gunpei Yokoi conceived the idea of the Game & Watch (the company’s first handheld) while watching a businessman idly press butto...

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Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope

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Red Queen Hypothesis

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TIL that Abraham Lincoln did not grow a beard until an 11 year old girl suggested it a few weeks before the 1860 presidential election.

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历史上的今天：4月21日

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April 21 Wikipedia featured article

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维基百科2026年4月21日优良条目

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TIL in 581 BC, Duke Jing of Jin was told by a shaman that the duke will die before eating the new harvest. The shaman was executed. The duke fell into his toile...

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TIL that a 2-year-old boy named Awaab Ishak died in the UK in 2020 from mould in his social housing flat, despite his parents complaining for 3 years. His death...

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TIL Switzerland had children taken from poor families and sent to work on farms through the 1960s to do forced labor.

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TIL about citrus greening disease, a bacterial infection that is devastating citrus crops. There is no known cure and it has spread to the majority of Florida c...

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TIL aircraft designer Nicholas Comper went outside to light fireworks. A passerby asked what he was doing, as a practical joker he replied he was an IRA man blo...

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TIL of the the Voldemort effect, which is a social phenomenon where people are fearful of naming someone, to speak of something or acknowledge it exists, and th...

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