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TIL Mexico was the only country to protest the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. To honor that support, there is a square in Vienna named "Mexikoplatz".

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GAGG TIL that 16 years after the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, they collected a sum of money to send to starving Irish Farmers during the Potato Famine.
504B TIL With a permanent population of less than one million people, Qatar hires migrant workers to fill their empty stadiums in the Qatar Stars League, paying them one dollar an hour to “sit in the stadiums and pretend to have fun”.
wo6OY TIL: There is currently someone in jail for 50 years in Thailand for insulting the king on social media. Thailand still has Lèse-majesté laws from 1908, which is the strictest defamation law in the world. Even insulting the King's pet or attempting to insult the King leads to decades of jail.
gKp7 TIL Geneticists have figured out the time that evolving humans lost their primate body hair by using mitochondrial DNA to calculate the date that head lice evolution diverged from that of public lice.
M7GgB TIL that captured U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was the last prisoner at the infamous KGB prison Lubyanka. Powers was tried and convicted by the Soviet authorities and was later traded for captured Soviet spy Col. Vilyam Fisher (a.k.a. Rudolf Abel).