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TIL that the exact meaning behind Québec's official motto—"Je me souviens"—has been lost to time. The phrase itself translates to "I remember" in English.

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R57d1 TIL that while postboxes in England, N. Ireland and Wales are engraved with "EIIR" -the royal cipher of Queen Elizabeth II, those in Scotland bear only a Crown; as there was no Elizabeth I of Scotland. The controversial use of "EIIR" on Scottish postboxes lead to the "Pillar Box War" in the 1950s.
peOO TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
neVaY TIL the Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul held the record for the highest-rated series premiere in cable history at the time of its airing. It has received critical acclaim, especially for its acting, characters, and cinematography, and some critics have deemed it superior to its predecessor.
yVl7p TIL about the flesh-rotting “zombie” drug xylazine, a powerful tranquilliser normally used by veterinarians on large animals which recently made its way onto the global illicit drug market.
OGO4X TIL that in 2017 and 2018, three academics submitted hoax articles, among them a Mein Kampf Passage rewritten with feminist lingo, into Gender and Race research journals in order to expose corruption in the field they called "grievance studies" They got away with it until their public reveal in 2018