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TIL each feather on a War Bonnet represents a good deed.

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J1rRv TIL North Korea is ranked highest in the world in terms of the percentage of population in slavery, with 10.4 percent (2,696,000 ppl) enslaved as per the Walk Free Foundation's 2018 Global Slavery Index. NK is the only country in the world that has not explicitly criminalized any form of slavery.
pYoNO TIL of Washington Principles as per which governments agreed to encourage museums to conduct provenance research on their collections, identify art seized by the Nazis, and seek “just and fair solutions” with the original Jewish collectors and their heirs on stolen works
W7ejL TIL About Silas Soule, a Little-Known Union Officer and Abolitionist Who Died Aged 26 for Testifying About the Massacre at Sand Creek
xVnL0 TIL whilst filming 'Man on the Moon' at Universal Studios in 1999, Jim Carrey once dressed as Mrs. Bates from 'Psycho' and terrorised a tram of tourists passing the film's sets on the Studio Tour. As a result, the tour has included an actor that slowly approaches the trams as they pass ever since.
lol1V TIL that every single engineer in the Titanic died because they were working and fighting to keep the lights on so everyone else could get out.