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TIL, The Netherlands gives Canada 20,000 tulips every year as a thank you for protecting the Dutch royal family in ww2

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VXwD TIL that the word “jazz” is a derivative of the west african word “jasm/jism” which means semen, also where the word “jizz” comes from
jNKQ TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone only need an Oscar to complete their EGOT.
8aOEG TIL, if you were able to travel from the Earth to a distance of 8.3 BILLION Light Years, you would cross the Cosmic Point of No Return, where you would NEVER be able to make it back to Earth, even if you somehow traveled the speed of light.
1anA7 TIL Russia was forced to release ten pirates who had taken over an oil tanker, due to having insufficient legal grounds to detain them. They released them in an inflatable boat without any navigation equipment. Radio contact was lost within an hour. It’s believed that they all perished.
GA7k7 TIL An estimated 50.000 Irish were made into indentured servants by Cromwell after he took Ireland in 1653.