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TIL: Observing Ramadan in northern communities can be much easier or much more difficult depending on time of year (in terms of fasting between sunrise and sunset).

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LrgV TIL Mexico is officially called the United Mexican States.
JYepB TIL 193km of the Suez Canal was dug partly by hand starting in 1859. Over the span of 10 years, around 1 million took part in the digging and it cost the lives of over 100 thousand Egyptian forced laborers.
wLJEE TIL the I-710 freeway in Los Angeles was never finished because of opposition by residents in South Pasadena
BgwOL TIL that the term 'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976
ADKdd TIL that from time syphilis first emerged, in the 1500s, countries blamed neighboring and sometimes enemy countries for the outbreak; Italy, Germany & the UK called it ‘the French disease’, the French named it ‘the Neapolitan disease’, and there are numerous other instance (Listed here, paragraph 3)