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TIL that every country in the United Nations has signed the “Convention on the Rights of a Child” except Somalia, South Sudan and the United States of America.

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Eg9Ww TIL Mitt Romney's dad George was given a McDonald's for Life card from founder Ray Kroc
bOO4 TIL candles were put on cakes originally by the greeks who would put them on rounded cakes to signify the moon and its glow in honor of Artemis, the Goddess of the moon.
nr0P TIL: there is a 96 minute Russian film titled Russian Ark that was shot in one take. It has an 88% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, received critical acclaim by Roger Ebert and on Metacritic has an 86/100 rating indicating “universal acclaim”.
a8gDJ TIL that domestic cats kill 1.3 - 4.0 billion birds and 6.3 - 22.3 billion mammals annually in the United States.
WkPZY TIL in Russia, the name "Plyushkin" is applied to people who collect and amass various useless things. The word comes from fictional character Stepan Plyushkin who orders one of his serfs to find a cake that a visitor brought several years ago, scrape off the mold, and bring it to them.