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TIL you don’t need to be a former British colony to join the Commonwealth of Nations. Mozambique, Rwanda, Gabon and Togo are all members despite no historical connections to the former British Empire.

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KOQM6 TIL - George Foreman made more money from the George Foreman Grill than he did boxing
OGMyR TIL Astronomer Rudolf Wolf observed sunspots through a telescope for 46 years from 1847 and managed to reconstruct historical records back to 1610. His sunspot number monitoring work continued at the Zürich Observatory until 1979
QJ8wd TIL of Army pilot Phil Rasmussen, who on the morning of pearl harbor, strapped a .45 to his pajamas and took to the skies to engage Japanese zeroes. He barely managed to land his plane, which some accounts say had over 500 bullet holes.
eplYn TIL That 90s porn star Asia Carrera was not only a member of MENSA, with an IQ of 156, she was such a fan of the game Unreal Tournament she created her own character skins which showed her in skimpy outfits in the classic FPS game.
Bgvpr TIL that Bosnia and Herzegovina actually has a coastline and is not landlocked by Croatia. A small town in Herzegovina, Neum, connects to the ocean.