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TIL that Germany has one of the lowest Home Ownership rates in Europe at 51.5% as of 2018

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JXGm TIL the African Union intends to have a single, continent-wide currency modeled on the Euro. One proposed name for the currency is the “Afro.”
Gel7 TIL Mark Twain once said, “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
VMOxp TIL about Georgia Ann Robinson. The first African-American policewoman with the LAPD. In 1919, she was officially appointed to a position of police officer. After having joined as a volunteer in 1916 during WWI.
KrWR TIL that from 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
W5aN [TIL] that after Chris Hadfield’s cover of “Space Oddity” from the ISS was removed from Youtube, David Bowie signed the rights to the song over to him so the video would stay up.