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TIL that the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.

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QNj6k TIL From 1897-1903 Imperial Germany constructed plans to invade the United States to sever its growing economic and political connections in the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, and South America. Hints of the German plans were first found by scholar Alfred Vagts in the 1930s and published in 1940.
8eLdZ TIL nonviolent protests engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change
8QJ8 TIL that between 15% and 58% of the Catholic clergy in the US is estimated to be gay (a number indisputably above the national average), and when HIV was still confined mostly to the gay community, AIDS-related deaths among priests was more than 6 times higher than among the general population.
kOJ0d TIL Stan Lee worked with Dr Seuss
VB0NQ TIL Haitian-American Joe Gaetjens, the sole goal-scorer in the upset victory over England in the 1950 World Cup, would later be kidnapped by Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier's secret police. He was taken to a prison notorious for torture and never heard of again until confirmed dead in 1972.