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TIL of Chubut Province. A province in Argentina that speaks Welsh.

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xV5bB TIL Blazing Saddles was the first movie to have a fart scene
oRw1A TIL the performer at the Paris Olympics faced harsh online criticism for his "blue scrotum" act.He explained that he wrote a song called "Nude" and said that the first Olympic athletes in Greece were depicted naked, highlighting the origins of the Games.
8nJ4 TIL that Ted Kennedy was reluctant to run for the US presidency after his brothers John and Bobby were assassinated because, he said, “They’re going to shoot my ass off”.
R7VB7 TIL of William of Orange, a war pigeon from British Intelligence service MI14. In 1944, he delivered a message which saved more than 2000 soldiers.
R5PGl TIL King George III had empathy for Native Americans and pushed the the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which forbade all new settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve. This angered many Colonists.