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TIL the most popular last name in the world is “Wang”

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NWQN TIL American founding father Benjamin Franklin thought the bald eagle was lazy and cowardly, and preferred other animals such as the turkey and rattlesnake to represent the United States of America.
gMXM9 The earliest English word we have a record of was discovered during an archaeological dig near Norwich, England in the early 1930s. It was written in an ancient runic script carved on the bone of a deer: "raihan."
Z8d8v TIL Jewish people were forced to wear badges or other identifying items centuries before Nazi Germany in both the Islamic world and medieval Europe
ngj9 TIL that during World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored closed to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.
4XlBR TIL most of the Federalist Papers (51 out of 85) that defended the the United States Constitution and lead to its ratification were written by Alexander Hamilton when he was 30 year old. He was also one of the five members of the committee that made the final draft of the original constitution.