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TIL about the name ‘Tonibler’ which is a male given name to children in Kosovo in honour of Prime Minister Tony Blair for his role in ending the Kosovo conflict.

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vNWK TIL a group advocating for people who are afraid to urinate in public asked DirecTV to pull its commercials starring Rob Lowe and an awkward alter ego “Painfully awkward Rob Lowe.”
ne8W9 TIL that if you are a Black man, you can be executed for murders you did not commit
X0oM8 Today i learned that the majority of the supercentenarians (people who've reached the age of 110) in the United States are engaged in intentional or unintentional pension fraud.
polA TIL tech companies often test new products in New Zealand because they’re an ethnically diverse, tech-savvy, and English-speaking nation, yet still relatively isolated. If a product is a flop there, news is unlikely to spread quickly to the rest of the world and damage a company’s reputation.
xAyw TIL Samhainophobia is the medical term for the irrational fear of Halloween. The root word is expressive of the ancient Celts who held a ceremony called Samhain in order to honor the harvest cycle.