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TIL that the Vietnamese word for the country of Italy is simply the letter "Ý".

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88V8 TIL that the guy that made John 3:16 famous on TV ended up in prison for taking a maid hostage proclaiming the end of the world.
w5jW TIL at the end of World War I Japan proposed a declaration at Versailles that all races be treated equally. The allies rejected it.
7D5r TIL The element ‘Cobalt’ gets it’s name from the German 'kobold’ which means 'goblin’. Miners found cobalt veins near their silver, and blamed this strange and dangerous metal on goblins, and thus named it after them.
GYVG TIL that 49.5% of all Americans (151,700,000) did not pay income taxes in 2009.
JY4jk TIL of a shipwreck in the River Thames of London that is full of explosives that if detonated could cause a tsunami