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TIL Brazil has a thriving Southern Confederate ex-pat community that hold festivals every April

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gyLW TIL “Orang” in Orangutan does not refer to the color orange, but rather the Indonesian word for “person”.
RynQ TIL that Germany has the lowest birth rate in the world while the highest birth rates are in Africa with Niger at the top of the list
D1dNe TIL legendary saxophonist Charlie Parker's heroin and alcohol addictions were so severe, that after his death at 34 years of age, the coroner mistakenly estimated him to be between 50 and 60 years old.
4X TIL Danny DeVito did the voice of the Lorax in five different languages, English, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian.
OGLBX TIL that Midnight Oil's landmark hit 'Beds Are Burning' was written to criticise the forced removal of Aboriginal Peoples from their ancestral lands.