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TIL the national anthem of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu is “Yumi, Yumi, Yumi”

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9EA7 TIL the British government has a position called “Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office” that can only be given to a cat
l79YA TIL Adelle Hugo, Victor Hugo's daughter, developed schizophrenia in her mid 20's, she became obsessed with a soldier she had initialy rejected and left her home in Jersey to stalk him across all his millitary deployments in Ireland, Canada and finally the Island of Barbados
5Ywwk TIL that in an unbelievable coincidence, the moon is exactly four hundred times smaller than the Sun but four hundred times closer to the Earth, so that both the Sun and the Moon appear to be precisely the same size in the sky - which gives us the phenomenon we call a total eclipse.
X06g6 TIL of the origin of the phrase "drunker than Cooter Brown." Legend says that Cooter lived on the dividing line between north and south in the American Civil War. He didn't want to fight, so he stayed drunk all the time to make himself ineligible for military service.
OoPOa TIL of Alexei Maresyev, a Soviet fighter ace who, upon being shot down, crawled for 18 days and nights back to Soviet territory. Even though his legs had to be amputated due to frostbite, he was soon back in the air with the assistance of prosthetic legs.