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TIL of Larkhall, Scotland, a town which has had its subway change its green signs, as well as had residents try to burn grass, because of sectarianism.

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7B7P TIL due to Niger having the world’s highest fertility rate, nearly 50% of the entire population is under the age of 14 years old
gN8b TIL that during the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were deported to Mexico without due process. An estimated 1.2 million were US citizens.
b91aQ TIL of Ryan Arnold, a man who saved his older brother’s life by donating him two thirds of his liver. Unfortunately, he died a few days after surgery while his brother got better.
Z8dma TIL that the Moon always shows Earth the same face
nplo TIL Ripley’s Believe It or Not was researched by a man who spent ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library for 52 years, researching more than 350,000 books during his decades of work for Believe it or Not.