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TIL Cyprus was going to host the first particle accelerator in the Middle East, but ministers chose to spend the money on hosting the Miss Universe pageant instead.

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Y7OAP TIL that some people in the US Midwest call bell peppers “mangoes”
LQlwZ TIL that 150,000 people speak the native language of Corsican. Always thought they just speak French there.
Bk9k TIL that Filip Konowal, a Canadian WW1 veteran and Victoria Cross recipient, upon discovering that a bootlegger had viciously beaten a friend of his, disarmed the man and stabbed him to death. Konowal later told police: “I’ve killed fifty-two of them, that makes the fifty-third.”
OolrL TIL according to some German soldiers interviewed after the D Day landings, the most amazing thing about the allied invasion was not the immense scale, or anything like the surprise of tanks driving out of the sea, but the fact that the allies did not need to use any horses.
kJd07 TIL that Orson Welles, Noam Chomsky, and Ayn Rand all recorded (rather moribund) Christmas specials.