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TIL Hungary preserves its communist-era monuments in a park, the collection includes a statue of Stalin's giant boots

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vPKJL TIL Merriam Webster has an alphabetised index of 315,000 cards with every word in dictionary spelled backwards on them. Before the internet, the cards were used to identify words that end with the same letters.
Vpnm TIL The Netherlands has been sending Canada 10,000 tulips every year for the past 70 years in appreciation for the liberation of the Netherlands from Nazi forces.
m1krO TIL about Hans Rott, a composer who thought that Brahms wanted to kill him with dynamite
4Xxmb TIL that after a BBC investigation found that Facebook failed to remove images of child abuse, Facebook responded by reporting the BBC to the authorities
XnDX TIL of Nellie Bly, a pioneer of investigative journalist who faked insanity in 1887 to investigate reports of brutality & neglect at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. She also went around the world in 72 days