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TIL that Niagara Falls gets turned down at night!

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oBJ7R TIL that egg rolls are an American invention, but spring rolls are authentically Chinese.
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Wm08 TIL in 1961, Fidel Castro closed Cuban schools for a whole year and formed teachers into a “literacy army” with the goal to eradicate illiteracy. By the end of the year, 707,212 previously illiterate people had learned how to read.
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