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TIL International Women’s Day was first celebrated in the Soviet Union and used to be called International Working Women’s Day until 1975

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6EbAJ Today I Learned Australia is actually an American company
9wJr TIL Hitler’s unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, written in 1928, praised the US as a ‘racially successful’ society.
16DW8 Today I learned that humans can glow in the dark, however, they are too weak for the human eye to detect.
oRPRW TIL since Canada’s founding in 1867, fewer than 50 people have been killed in earthquakes on the land now contained within the country’s borders
OG60g TIL that there is an island in the Pacific called Yap that uses circular stones as currency. The stones are too large to move so the ownership of the stones is passed by word of mouth to transact business.