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TIL Finland is the world’s most stable society. It has the highest rate of literacy and the second-lowest level of corruption in the world.

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gMVaD TIL about The Freedom Riders. Buses filled with black and white would travel to the south to test the law that banned segregation on interstate travel. They were attacked and firebombed then assaulted numerous times.
e0JGk TIL of Berengaria of Navarre, the only Queen of England to have never set foot in the country. She was married to Richard the Lionheart for 8 years
rl7W TIL In Mongolia, if your foot taps against someone else’s, it is respectful to immediately shake hands with them.
LkXVr TIL at the Battle of Cowpens during the American Revolution, an American officer used his Spontoon (spear) to pole vault onto, and capture, a British cannon
R55lQ TIL Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, in a clinical study sanctioned by Disney, had a 70% success rate in helping pass kidney stones for simulated kidneys.