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TIL: Canada and the United States are the only two advanced countries to offer unconditional birthright citizenship.

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P54n TIL a BBC investigation found that collagen being used in British cosmetic surgeries had been harvested from executed Chinese prisoners.
WOg9 TIL ‘goodbye’ is a misspelled contraction of 'God be with ye’
R7vr7 TIL about Almon Brown Strowger. Strowger's undertaking business was losing clients to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was redirecting everyone who called for Strowger. Motivated to remove the intermediary operator, he invented the first automatic telephone exchange in 1889.
956 TIL that women become more biased against men from other races when they’re fertile.
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