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TIL that Niue is a member of some UN specialised agencies (such as UNESCO, and the WHO), and is invited, alongside the other non-UN member state, the Cook Islands, to attend United Nations conferences open to "all states".

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7y8L TIL of a Chinese traffic jam that lasted 10 days, with some individual drivers taking up to 5 days to get out. This took so long that a small micro economy developed on the highway
YwnB TIL Asbestos was used as fake snow in early Hollywood in films such as, “The Wizard of Oz”
XEn6r TIL that in 1862, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act paid those loyal to the Union up to $300 for every enslaved person freed. The largest individual payout was $18,000 for 69 slaves, which is equal to $556,024.34 in 2020.
ajEZ TIL of the Clay Belt, a large area suitable for farming in northern Ontario and Quebec. Although land is free for use and very fertile, settlement attempts repeatedly failed; one farmer gave up because “there are seven months of snow, two months rain, and all the rest is black flies and mosquitoes”.
E1p9V TIL that the women of Bari tribe of Venezuela believes that a child can have multiple biological fathers. That, a child is not born from the sperm of a single man, but from the accumulation of sperm in a woman's womb.