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TIL that the Dutch word for fun is ‘lol’.

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VpmG TIL Liberia was established by citizens of the United States as a colony for former African American slaves and their free black descendants.
9w7wr TIL about the "Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist," a crime where thieves stole nearly 3,000 tons of maple syrup valued at about $18 million from a Quebec warehouse between 2011 and 2012.
bwNa TIL that the guards at The Tomb of the Unknowns have never left their posts due to bad weather. They stayed outside during Hurricane Isabel in 2003.
0wVAM TIL that contestants on Jeopardy can't ring in until a light goes on that only they can see which TV viewers can't see and the process is controlled by an off-screen employee.
9Oxp TIL that Scarlett Johansson was asked by Oxfam (for whom she was a global ambassador) to stop supporting SodaStream in Israel (which had built illegal settlements in Palestine). She chose to leave Oxfam and do a SuperBowl advert for SodaStream instead.