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TIL only nine countries are named after animals

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0wmeA TIL the Kosovo Long Crower Rooster can crow for (an excruciatingly long) 30 seconds straight.
OoXBR TIL that "In God We Trust" was not the US's national motto, nor was it present in the pledge or all currency until the 1950s. It was added largely as opposition to atheistic beliefs in the USSR during the cold war.
N7j98 TIL that scientists are and have been working on ways to record dreams. They have even recorded shapes through and other images through fMRI machines. One day soon, maybe we can record our dreams.
d8Z1r TIL that the couple in the Pulitzer-Prize photo “Burst of Joy” divorced within a year and the husband, Robert Stirm, who had spent over five years in a North Vietnamese prison, was forced to give 43% of his retirement to his ex-wife.
VMmwp TIL Ukrainian KGB directorate repeatedly reported to Moscow on systematic safety breaches during Chernobyl construction works between 1976 and 1979 and reported in 1984 on deficiencies in the third and fourth reactors