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TIL That in France it is illegal to deny that the holocaust happened.

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rR8B1 TIL at their closest points, Russia and the USA are only 2.4 miles apart.
nWjnG TIL The first observatory discovered in the Americas is the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex. It is a prehistoric site (250-200 BC), located on the north-central coast of Peru, in the Casma Valley.
XLXX TIL that Rose Leslie (“Ygritte”) grew up in a castle ;her father being the chieftain of Clan Leslie. Kit Hartington (“Jon Snow”) is a distant cousin
69YRl TIL that during WW2, they experimented with running London buses on gas that's produced from burning coal. The gas was produced on a trailer that was towed by the buses.
won91 TIL BBC developed a written form for West African Pidgin. Pidgin has 75 million speakers in West Africa but did not have a standard written form prior to this. E.g. ,"Wen be Eid al-Fitr and how dem dey decide di date?"