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TIL that each year, on the 1st of August, at 17.00 people living in Warsaw stop for one minute to commemorate the Warsaw Uprising. And it looks awsome.

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gMRV8 TIL that fellows of St John's College, Cambridge University are the only people other than the Queen who are legally allowed to eat unmarked mute swans in England
jLka TIL Charles Darwin & Joseph Hooker started the world’s first terraforming project on Ascension Island in 1850. The project has turned an arid volcanic wasteland into a self sustaining and self reproducing ecosystem made completely of foreign plants from all over the world.
Wkdy9 TIL that Lt. ”Mad” Jack Churchill wielded his bagpipes, broadsword and longbow when leading his men in WW2. He used the pipes to inspire his men, is recorded doing hand-to-hand fighting with his broadsword against a German regiment and has the only registered kill with a longbow in centuries.
GAJ61 TIL China has Muslim Labour Camps