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Dec 11, 2022

How Argentina got rid of its black people to become one of the whitest country in the world.

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History has been white-washed so severely that often, the extent of racism across the world is masked. The country that has been most ‘successful’ in white-washing its population, history and culture is Argentina.

Argentina is considered the whitest country in South America,

which is odd considering that, like Brazil, they were colonized and subjected to Spanish colonists shipping in African slaves from the West Coast of the African continent. Currently, Argentina’s population of European ethnicity constituted 97% of the population

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Dec 9, 2022

Happy independence day Tanzania. Here are some facts about this beautiful country in East Africa.🇹🇿

1. Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa on the Indian Ocean. It includes the spice island of Zanzibar, Pemba, and Mafia.

2. The capital city of Tanzania is Dodoma.

3. Tanzania is the home of the highest point and mountain in Africa called Mount Kilimanjaro, it tops out at 19,340 feet above sea level (5895m)

4. Tanzania is known for its vast wilderness area, such as the plains of Serengeti National Park and a Safari Mecca populated by the

big five game such as elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and rhino.

5. Tanzania has the largest animal population density out of any country in the world.

7. Tanzania is the only country in the world where Tanzanite is found.

8. Dar es salam is the largest city in Tanzania and

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Sep 11, 2022

On this day, September 11, 2001, a blind man named Michael Hingson was in his office on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The local leader of Quantum Corporation, Hingson was preparing for the workday when he suddenly heard a muffled boom and felt the

building move about 20 feet.

Though Hingson's coworkers immediately panicked and began describing fearsome sights of smoke, flames, and raining debris, his guide dog Roselle did not show any fear — leading Hingson to believe that he and his colleagues had

time to evacuate the building safely.

Despite the harrowing descent of over 1,460 steps that awaited them, Hingson and Roselle not only successfully escaped the burning North Tower but also helped

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Sep 11, 2022

When the second plane hit the Twin Towers on 9/11, Pete Davidson's 33-year-old father was on shift at Ladder 118 in Brooklyn Heights. Seconds later, the call came in about the attack, and Scott Davidson, along with five other firefighters, soon raced across the

Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center.

At that moment, a Bible printer happened to be on a nearby rooftop and snapped a photo of the fire truck driving toward the smoking towers. Just a short while later, Davidson

and the rest of the Ladder 118 crew were all killed while

evacuating the Marriott World Trade Center hotel as the North Tower collapsed, destroying the building and also burying the doomed fire truck.

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Sep 11, 2022

Marcel Felix Petiot was a French serial killer who got his victims by offering to help them escape France through a non-existent secret route. They were majorly wanted people.

Once the victims agreed, he convinced them that they needed to be vaccinated.

Instead of giving them

vaccine, he would inject them with cyanide and then rob them of their belongings.

On 11 March 1944, Petiot's neighbors called the attention of the police to a foul stench in the area and large amounts of smoke billowing from a chimney of the house.

Fearing a chimney fire, the

police summoned firemen, who entered the house and found a roaring fire in a coal stove in the basement. In the fire, and scattered in the basement, were human remains. It is believed he killed not less than 60 people this way.

He disappeared for a while, grew his beard and

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Sep 10, 2022

"Let me tell you, it is a degrading, horrible experience when you realize you're losing your husband to another woman."—Vivian Liberto

When Johnny Cash's first wife Vivian Liberto filed for divorce after 13 years of marriage, she fully expected him to wed his mistress

June Carter. But she never could have predicted that she would be vilified in pop culture as the bitter ex-wife who tried to stop him from singing.

To make matters worse, she was temporarily excommunicated from the Catholic Church due to her divorce and banned from taking

communion — a ban that was only lifted when Cash himself wrote to the archdiocese confessing his failure as a husband.

Throughout their marriage, June tried to help Johnny stop his amphetamine addictions, often taking his drugs and flushing them down the toilet. She remained

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