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TIL Belize is a Commonwealth state like Canada!

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b6L84 TIL of Gondal, a world building project by Emily Bronte (writter of Wuthering Heights) with her sister Anne, mostly because they got sick of their older siblings, Branwell and Charlotte, kept dominating their previous world building game, the Glasstown Confederacy
XE0bE TIL Astronauts attach pieces of Velcro into their helmets to scratch their noses during space walks.
rNVNd TIL in March 2020, IKEA partnered with Pizza Hut Hong Kong to make a table that looked like a pizza saver. It came in a giant pizza box and encouraged you to order a Swedish meatball pizza.
jWdQ Til there was an anonymous campaign from different mysterious critics trying to attack and discredit the work of Dr. Heimlich (of the Heimlich manouver). It turns out that all the critics were the same person: his own son.
neDn9 TIL Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He earned enough money to buy his freedom at age 27. The following year he married his wife Tina and purchased her freedom as well.