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TIL that the sun has still not set on the British Empire.
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TIL Before the 1930s, the US 45th Infantry division's symbol was a red square with a yellow Hooked Cross, a tribute to the large Native American population in the southwestern United States.
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TIL that Ted Cruz was born in Alberta.
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TIL The megalopolis of Mexico City consists of 173 municipalities with an approximate total population of almost 27 million people. Some sources include Greater Querétaro city, with a population of over a million, in a Mexico City megalopolis
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TIL For eight months during World War II Chester Keefer oversaw all civilian use of penicillin. The period of rationing had Keefer review every case and decide if a patient would receive the drug. Keefer's work gained him the nickname 'penicillin czar'.
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TIL that the eleven points of the maple leaf of the Canadian flag has no special significance: the number and arrangement of the points were chosen after wind tunnel tests and the chosen pattern is the least blurred under high winds.