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22 veterans commit suicide every day
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TIL Denmark’s current flag design was first used in 1219. No other modern country has used its flag for so long.
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TIL Hitler ever only received about 37% of the popular vote
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TIL that a baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after an off-duty rescue worker performed CPR on it. The man had worked in rescue for 26 years and performed dozens of CPR attempts on humans, but the elephant was the first victim he had ever managed to revive
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TIL Home Alone was responsible for making Kevin the number one name in Germany in 1991. Later, the name became associated with low social status in the country, which led to the coining of the German word, Kevinismus, meaning the negative preconception German people give to trendy exotic names
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TIL Paul Edmund Strzelecki, a Polish gentleman, saved over 200,000 children during the Irish famine.