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TIL after a student was suspended for wearing their t-shirt, Korn donated hundreds of shirts to be given out and police officers helped to do so

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epx8b TIL that Spanish football club Athletic Club Bilbao has a policy of only signing players who were either born in or trained in football in the Basque county.
OGYQL TIL a powerful hurricane split historic Captiva Island into two separate islands in 1921. The intensity of the storm cleaved the original island into what is now known as Captiva Island and North Captiva Island, and the storm's devastation ended all agriculture on both of the newly formed islands.
Y7eEv TIL that the Battle of Spioenkop, which took place in South Africa in 1900, saw Winston Churchill couriering messages to the frontlines and Mahatma Ghandi serving as a stretcher-bearer.
6rkJ TIL an Indian man was fraudulently declared dead by his uncle. He fought with the Indian government for nineteen years to prove that he is alive.
Wk9mN TIL: Ireland were neutral in WW2, paid condolences to the Hitlers death, persecuted Irish men who returned after fighting for the allies, and for 9 years Irish membership to the United nations was vetoed because they had not joined the allies.