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TIL that the official twitter account of Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage.

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x66K1 TIL about Charles Wicksteed who invented the modern-day slide and swing in the 1920's, installing them at Wicksteed Park in Kettering, Northamptonshire
VB0NQ TIL Haitian-American Joe Gaetjens, the sole goal-scorer in the upset victory over England in the 1950 World Cup, would later be kidnapped by Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier's secret police. He was taken to a prison notorious for torture and never heard of again until confirmed dead in 1972.
DQpJ TIL the movie Twister was rated PG-13 for ‘intense depiction of bad weather’
AEj4 TIL that Evolution was proposed by Christian Bishop Saint Augustine, in his paper, ‘The Literal Meaning of Genesis’, written in the early 400s.
OkOY TIL President James Garfield was the first ambidextrous president and could write Latin with one hand while simultaneously writing Greek with the other