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TIL, "Take Poo to the Loo" was an Indian social media campaign led by UNICEF to combat the country's problems with open defecation.

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61vm TIL that the flag of Nova Scotia was only officially adopted in 2013, even after 155 years of use, when an 11 year-old girl researching a project realized that it had never been officially recognized in all that time.
a8GmN TIL in 1958, 14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate and her 18-year-old boyfriend killed her parents and strangled her two-year-old sister to death in their Nebraska home — then went on a multi-state rampage in which they murdered 8 people and killed at least 2 dogs with their bare hands
47DX TIL France owns a small island off the coast of Newfoundland that is entirely comprised of rock (St. Pierre). The streets are carved into the rock, and instead of cemeteries, inhabitants carved tombs into the island which are there to this day.
MeDYV TIL: A new theory suggest Moses and the burning bush was not an event, but a vision created through the use of DMT created from the peganum harmala bush which was common in the region where evidence exist it was used in religious ceremony.
DbQJ TIL Monopoly was originally a game designed to warn against the power of landlords and how they could make money for essentially doing nothing. It was a warning against unbridled capitalism and the wealth inequality it creates.