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TIL that German soccer player Mesut Ozil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgeries for 23 children in Brazil.

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neKR7 TIL that the current premier of Cambodia (Lord Prime Minister, Supreme Military Commander Hun Sen) is a former member of the Khmer Rouge.
N7XK6 TIL there used to be a Latin warning describing the Strait of Gibraltar: "NON PLUS ULTRA", or "Nothing further beyond". After Spain reaped huge rewards proving that this wasn't quite true, they made their national motto "PLUS ULTRA", or "Further beyond".
Br5Ye TIL that dogs can talk, or at least, they can learn to communicate with humans by pressing buttons that produce sounds for different words, and they can have actual conversations with us
ee4b TIL 37% of Italians have never used the internet (as of 2012)
LDWZ TIL a quasar group called LQG is the largest known structure in the Universe. The group is so large that it would take a vehicle traveling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross it