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TIL Homer Simpson is an honourary citizen of Winnipeg

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5YnR9 TIL Andre Kasongo Ilunga was the rising star of Congolese politics in 2006. Just 34, he had risen from obscurity to be appointed minister for foreign trade in Congo's first democratic government, despite being completely fictional.
xV601 TIL of Phoenix air group. The only airline certified by the CDC and FAA, capable of flying a patient with Ebola.
epeZg TIL that George Washington only left the present-day United States one time in his life, when he traveled to Barbados with his brother in 1751.
wo89P TIL Barbara Eden spoke real Farsi when meeting Larry Hagman’s character in the first episode of I Dream of Jeannie, and her dialect was coached by a UCLA professor
7rpP Til When forks were first introduced in 11 century Tuscany they were condemned by the clergy, arguing that human fingers were created by god and only they were worthy to touch god’s bounty. 100 yrs later introduced to England by Sir Thomas Becket. The Spork was of course the work of Witches