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TIL that B.R Ambedkar, the Chairman of the committee that drafted the Constitution of India, which was put into effect in 1950, said three years later that "It does not suit anybody."

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gMdBA TIL that there is a permanent colony of wallabies inhabiting an island in Loch Lomond in Scotland after being released there in the '40s by an eccentric millionaire.
kJaGe TIL: That the Federal Reserve is sitting on an unused $1 billion stock pile of $1 coins minted at an expense of around $300 million, partly because despite numerous attempts Americans do not want to use the coins but prefer to use the paper note instead
vjN8 TIL the ancestor of the first whales was a midsize, land dwelling mammal
xVEd7 TIL that Vatican City is least populated country in the world and never reached 1000 people. But it attracts 5 million tourists annually.
4X4Aa TIL that throughout history, about 80 percent of women reproduced, whereas only 40 percent of men did