In 1914, Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary, led a peasant uprising in central Mexico against wealthy landowners who controlled land and water for sugar cane production, supported by dictator Porfirio Díaz.

Despite Mexico banning slavery, poor peasants were trapped in indentured servitude, forced to buy goods on credit at high prices, keeping them in debt and bound to work.

Zapata’s rebel army fought to reclaim stolen land for peasants, uniquely allowing women to serve as combatants and officers. Though they never took over the central government, they supported the poor in their territory.

In 1916, at 39, Zapata was betrayed, ambushed, and killed by government forces. His famous quote was, “I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.”

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Eruption of Mount St. Helens

On this day in 1980, following an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale, Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted in one of the greatest volcanic explosions ever recorded in North America.
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French gangsters in the early 1900s used a weapon known as the "Apache revolver" that functioned as a revolver, a knife, and brass knuckles.
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Loopholes were small slits in castle walls that let archers fire arrows, and the modern use of the term reflects the apparent contradiction between the intent of an impenetrable wall and having small holes in it that allow defenders to gain an advantage.
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Buddhism predicts its own demise. We are currently in the second thousand years of the Dharma-Ending stage and there are 9000 years left before all Buddhist teachings have been lost or forgotten.
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The world’s newest countries:

🇸🇸 South Sudan - 2011
🇲🇪 Montenegro - 2006
🇷🇸 Serbia - 2000
🇵🇼 Palau - 1994
🇨🇿 Czech Republic - 1993
🇸🇰 Slovakia - 1993
🇪🇷 Eritrea - 1993
🇲🇰 North Macedonia - 1993
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan - 1992
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan - 1992
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan - 1992
🇹🇯 Tajikistan - 1992
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan - 1992
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan - 1992
🇭🇷 Croatia - 1992
🇬🇪 Georgia - 1992
🇲🇩 Moldova - 1992
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1992
🇦🇲 Armenia - 1992
🇸🇮 Slovenia - 1992
🇷🇺 Russia - 1991
🇧🇾 Belarus - 1991
🇱🇹 Lithuania - 1991
🇱🇻 Latvia - 1991
🇪🇪 Estonia - 1991
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 1991
🇫🇲 Micronesia - 1991
🇲🇭 Marshall Islands - 1991
🇩🇪 Germany - 1990
🇾🇪 Yemen - 1990
🇳🇦 Namibia - 1990

Note: Year when admitted to U.N.

According to World Population Review

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In 1966, U.S. Navy pilot Jeremiah Denton was held as a POW in North Vietnam. During a forced TV interview, his captors instructed him to say he was being treated well. But Denton blinked the word "TORTURE" in Morse code using just his eyes.
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Hiroshima shadows

When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the intensity of the blast was of such intensity that it permanently burned shadows of people and objects into the ground.
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Men in Switzerland are required to keep the firearms they are issued during their military service at home even after they leave the military to prevent any home break ins and to have the countries men ready to mobilize in the event of a threat.
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The ancient Egyptians measured the flood levels of the Nile and levied taxes according to how high water levels were. If the water level indicated there would be a strong harvest, taxes would be higher.
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Despite 3 different scientists returning a negative paternity test, Charlie Chaplin was forced to pay child support for 21 years because of a Jury decision of 11-1 that yes, he was the father.
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Most reliable airlines, 2024.

1. 🇲🇽 Aeromexico
2. 🇸🇦 Saudia
3. 🇺🇸 Delta Airlines
4. 🇨🇱 LATAM Airlines
5. 🇶🇦 Qatar Airways
6. 🇧🇷 Azul
7. 🇨🇴 Avianca
8. 🇪🇸 Iberia
9. 🇸🇪 SAS
10. 🇺🇸 United Airlines

(Cirium)

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There is a football team called Chicken Inn in Zimbabwe.
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There is a disease called Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome (SCDS) that affects the inner ear and amplifies all internal sounds. It gets to the point where the sound of the eyeballs moving in their sockets sounds like “sandpaper on wood.”
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Mahatma Gandhi used to travel with his goat so that he could have fresh milk
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desengaño
/desen gano/ [noun] (Spanish)
Feeling of disillusionment or the loss of naive belief, occurring when one realizes that something or someone is not as good as initially thought.
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🪦 List of Presidents who died in aviation accidents and incidents:

🇵🇾 President of Paraguay (1940) 🛩️
🇵🇭 President of the Philippines (1957) 🛩️
🇧🇷 President of Brazil (1958) 🛩️
🇮🇶 President of Iraq (1966) 🛩️
🇧🇷 President of Brazil (1967) 🛩️
🇧🇴 President of Bolivia (1969) 🚁
🇪🇨 President of Ecuador (1981) 🛩️
🇲🇿 President of Mozambique (1986) 🛩️
🇵🇰 President of Pakistan (1988) 🛩️
🇷🇼 President of Rwanda (1994) 🛩️
🇧🇮 President of Burundi (1994) 🛩️
🇲🇰 President of North Macedonia (2004) 🛩️
🇵🇱 President of Poland (2010) 🛩️
🇨🇱 former President of Chile (2024) 🚁
🇮🇷 President of Iran (2024) 🚁

This list may not be exhaustive

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Sheep commit mass suicide. The largest recorded instance was in 2005, in Turkey where 1,500 sheep followed each other over the edge of a cliff resulting in 450 deaths and approximately $100,000 in losses to the families who owned them.
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The legal drinking age:

🇨🇫 Central African Republic: 15
🇲🇱 Mali: 15
🇦🇹 Austria: 16
🇧🇪 Belgium: 16
🇩🇪 Germany: 16
🇱🇺 Luxembourg: 16
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 16
🇲🇹 Malta: 17
🇦🇷 Argentina: 18
🇦🇺 Australia: 18
🇧🇷 Brazil: 18
🇫🇷 France: 18
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 18
🇷🇺 Russia: 18
🇹🇷 Türkiye: 18
🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 18
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 18
🇨🇦 Canada: 18-19
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates: 18-21 (or illegal)
🇮🇳 India: 18-21 (or illegal)
🇶🇦 Qatar: 19
🇰🇷 South Korea: 19
🇮🇸 Iceland: 20
🇯🇵 Japan: 20
🇹🇭 Thailand: 20
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: 20
🇧🇭 Bahrain: 21
🇪🇬 Egypt: 21
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 21
🇺🇸 United States: 21
🇪🇷 Eritrea: 25
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: illegal
🇮🇷 Iran: illegal
🇰🇼 Kuwait: illegal
🇱🇾 Libya: illegal
🇲🇻 Maldives: illegal
🇵🇰 Pakistan: illegal
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: illegal
🇸🇴 Somalia: illegal
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: no age limit
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau: no age limit
🇹🇱 Timor-Leste: no age limit
🇹🇬 Togo: no age limit
🇪🇭 Western Sahara: no age limit

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