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R5mA8 TIL Cambodia has the most public holidays observed by the whole country (28) while other countries like Nepal (35) & India (42) have more but they are not all observed by the whole country.
R5g86 TIL Jamaican-born Dr. Kenneth Melville was one of the first Black medical students at McGill University in Montreal who became an internationally respected pharmacologist. He was pivotal in the battle for racial justice, civil rights, and human rights in Canada.
dox7 TIL McD’s founder Ray Croc and Walt Disney both lied about their age to serve in WWI and served in the same ambulance.
Eg0Z7 TIL that Scooby-Doo has starred in 14 separate animated TV series since 1969
epeMg TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries