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TIL Namibia is also the only country to include protection of the natural world in its governmental constitution

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pBYQ TIL that in 1939 US and Canada refused to accept 937 Jews who were the last to escape Nazi Germany and despite desperate attempts of (non Jewish) german captain to secure safety for his passengers they were forced to return to Europe. Many of them later died in concentration camps.
e0rJJ TIL that astronomers have discovered a massive black hole with a huge appetite. Each day, the black hole named J2157 consumes gas and dust equivalent to the mass of the Sun, making it the fastest-growing black hole in the universe.
VvO8 TIL that ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has a 5-octave and 5 notes vocal range, which is bigger than that of Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose and Mariah Carey
Z84kG TIL that there are still two living leaders from World War 2. The first is the Dalai Lama who was the leader of Tibet. The second is Tsar Simeon II who was the leader of Bulgaria.
X0MAE TIL of Somaliland, an entirely unrecognized sovereign nation in the de jure territory of Somalia. Since declaring independence in 1991, it has managed to carve out a free, democratic and relatively peaceful and prosperous country in a notoriously war-torn region.