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TIL Ireland is the only country in the world with a musical instrument as its symbol

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w6rE TIL in 1980 some dad cut his 8 year old’s penis off and flushed it down the toilet because he was late home. After a 90 minute search in the sewers, firemen recovered the penis and it was successfully attached back onto the boy in a 3h operation.
rblx TIL the song “Takin’ Care of Business” by BTO, a song constantly used as a soundtrack to denote hard work, is actually about doing as little work as possible.
W7169 TIL about the 1927 election in Liberia, when the registered voters numbered around 15,000 but Charles D. B. King got around 230,000 votes.
p8gdO TIL the smallest state forest in New York measures 348 square feet and contains the stump of only a single tree that was cut down in 2015.
77vb TIL of Giorgio Perlasca. A meat importer from Padua, Italy. He posed as a Spanish diplomat in Nazi-controlled Hungary in 1944, saving over 5,000 Jews from deportation to the gas chambers. One memorable act saw him stare down Adolph Eichmann who wanted to remove two 12-year-old Jewish children.