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TIL blockbusters last slogan was “That’s all folks!”
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R7w09
TIL of Thierville, France, unique in that there is no local war memorial. Starting from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, through both World Wars, the First Indochina War (1946-54) & Algerian War (1954-62), all the soldiers from Thierville who took part in those conflicts came home alive.
p8Wd4
TIL it is considered important in Kazakh culture for each individual to know their family tree back at least seven generations. This is due to a strong tradition of oral history.
xVMxk
TIL that as compensation for claiming New Amsterdam (New York) from the Dutch in 1667, the English relinquished claims to the disputed South American territory of Suriname. Today, Suriname is the only independent country in the Americas where most people speak Dutch.
YpKOZ
TIL that North Koreans have had a long-held belief that Kim Il-sung had the ability to teleport until it was debunked by North Korean state-run media recently
Wkd79
TIL a 2007 study of the 1918 Flu in American cities showed relaxing social distancing too early could result in a reversal of a declining infection rate called a double-peaked epidemic.