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TIL Morocco was the first country to recognize the United States as an independent sovereign nation

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ne0Kb TIL about Dixie Square Mall, a mall that opened in 1966, but multiple incidents and crime increasing forced it to close down in 1978, and was left abandoned until 2012, when it was finally demolished.
81LV TIL When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Otto Von Bismarck (the man who unified Germany) responded that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”
XZlE TIL there is an ocean-friendly guide for buying seafood
KA8Q TIL a 14 year old with cancer installed an ICEE machine at her hospital to help other children battling cancer off-set the side effects of cancer. Her parents are continuing her legacy and have raised enough money to install 13 machines this far!
dvNd TIL when the allied forces were signing the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the Canadian general blind in one eye mistakenly signed below his signature line, forcing every person after him to sign one space below. The Japanese found it unacceptable.