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TIL Costa Rica celebrates 71yrs with no military today, identifies teachers as its best defense

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QVwX TIL that the official twitter account of Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage.
mxKwO TIL that "fart" is one of the oldest words in the English language, and can be traced back to its Proto-Indo-European roots through its cognates in other European languages and Sanskrit
8e0Ya TIL Ontario's boundary with the United States runs 2700 kilometres on water and only about one kilometre on land.
ZOQp TIL that exactly six months after 9/11, the hijackers’ Florida flight school received notification from the Immigration & Naturalization Service that two of them had been approved for student visas.
xVmWw TIL Alfred Thomson, British Artist, became the last person to win a Gold Medal for painting as medals for art. The 1948 Olympic Games in London would be the last time art was a category in the Olympics.