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TIL there was a period in French history where the country actually was represented by a plain white flag.

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kOKVW TIL that the esteemed Swedish university, Lund University, had its Facebook admin put out a statement requesting Indians not to make fun of the university in the comment sections, because "Lund" translates to "penis" in Hindi.
x68ek TIL in 1945 Ireland's president and prime minister both offered official condolences to Germany upon the death of Hitler. They were the only Western European democracy to do so and were described at "indifferent to the Nazi persecution of the Jews."
QX59 TIL the word Dinner comes from the old French word Disner, which meant “Breakfast”.
0wdmN TIL that the first humans were apparently Chinese - Peking man was the missing link between ancient ape and modern humans. However, most of the fossil fragments of the Peking man vanished after 1941
VMYP0 TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the Directors’ Guild because they insisted on a traditional credit sequence for A New Hope and he wanted to start it with the now-iconic opening crawl.