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TIL Egypt is quantitatively the most rectangle country.

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KwrQ TIL in 1968 a tower block in London partially collapsed after a woman tried to make a cup of tea.
6APY TIL: The White House runs linux on all of its computers.
wLZXJ TIL a trial by combat in medieval France took place between a King's bodyguard and a Greyhound. The Greyhound attacked the guard in the street so often that people suspected he had murdered the dog's owner. He confessed when the greyhound pinned him to the ground in the duel and was hung.
JDak TIL: The town of Delta, British Columbia Canada has the postal code “V4G1N4”
P1aVZ TIL about the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII. “In the first four months of 1942, German U-boats ravaged the shipping lanes off North Carolina, sinking almost 40 ships during that period. It is an often overlooked piece of American history.”