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TIL Choktaw people raised 140$ aid to Irish people during the Great Irish Famine which killed 1 million people. Queen Victoria whose personal wealth was over £500 million send £2000.

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5YYDR TIL a quarter of Grade 4 students, half of Grade 7 students and 85 per cent of Grade 11 students in Canada have their own personal cellphone. They are being used less as actual phones and more as mini computers by kids
DEeY TIL Bluetooth technology (and its logo) was named after King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson because he unified Denmark and Norway much like the technology which unifies electronic devices. The logo consists of the Nordic runes for his initials…H.B.
x6bno TIL In 1920, King Alexander of Greece died from an infection caused by a monkey bite
OG9Ya TIL Tony Hawk’s son is married to Kurt Cobain’s daughter
a8x4J TIL only ten countries officially recognize a national sport - and despite their popularities, countries like the United States, England, Japan and China don't recognize baseball, football, sumo, or table tennis as such. Canada is also the only country to recognize two: ice hockey and lacrosse.