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TIL The United Kingdom, at the request of the United States, began expelling the native inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago in 1968

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69eOJ TIL the logo of VLC media player is a traffic cone because the creators of the program had a traffic cone collection in their laboratory.
rRZQw TIL The reason common dice have pips instead of numbers is because their invention predates that of written numbers.
gMG7X TIL every year Warsaw stands still to commemorate the Warsaw Uprising
GYjPE TIL of the ‘3-30-300 rule’, a proposed rule in urban planning that argues that everyone should be able to see at least 3 trees from home, with a 30% canopy cover in each neighbourhood and the nearest park being a maximum of 300 metres away.
NXXAQ TIL Rio's iconic "Christ the Redeemer" is not the only giant statue of Jesus. Several enormous statues exist around the world, including the sci-fi "Heart of Jesus" in Romania, the submerged "Christ of the Abyss" in Italy, and the tallest one at 33 meters, "Christ the King" in Poland.