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TIL rainbows can be formed at night. They are called 'Moonbows'

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OomwX TIL about a platform that provides an interactive map for Indigenous lands that changed and improved the way I view the backstory of countries and people. The map includes indigenous territories, languages, and treaties in different areas around the world.
VBQ18 TIL in Turkmenistan every year, teachers and doctors are forced to leave their jobs to go pick cotton for harvest on behalf of the government. This year there was an exception and they were allowed exemption.
akV9 TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War
jMGE TIL of Heinz Drossel, a German Lieutentant during WWII that refused to join the Nazi Party. He came upon a woman on a bridge who attempted to jump as soon as she saw his uniform, as she was Jewish. He stopped her and assisted her in escaping to safety. After the war, he married her.
nW9gB TIL about the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. US President Benjamin Harrison made the declaration that on 22 April 1889 at 12pm the Unassigned Land in Indian Territory would be open for settlement. At the time of the opening, which was indicated by gunshot, 50.000 people were lined up at the start