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TIL Jimmy Carter's mother was in the Peace Corps at 68 years old

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Jxnm TIL the Queen’s coronation dress had emblems of an English Tudor rose, a Scots thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, an Australian wattle, a Canadian maple leaf, a New Zealand fern, South Africa’s protea, an Indian pearly lotus, an Ceylonese opalescent lotus and Pakistan’s wheat, cotton and jute
9wkE6 TIL of TLC's Toddlers and Tiaras, Kailia Posey – who went on to inadvertently become known as the 'Grinning Girl' meme – died by suicide aged 16 in May 2022.
XY7D TIL The ZIP in ZIP Code stands for Zone Improvement Plan
KY9LJ TIL of an early African-heritage resident of London, a silk weaver going by the rather... unsubtle name of Reasonable Blackman.
NXevb TIL There is a 1990 Pakistani movie called International Guerillas where Salman Rushdie is the villain. He is killed by the the movie's heros, three brothers dressed as Batman, with the help of flying Qurans.