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TIL Belize is a Commonwealth state like Canada!

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XEMmP TIL “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening made a deliberate attempt to follow in the footsteps of Walt Disney. Groening said “I made Bart like Mickey Mouse in the sense that he would always be recognisable in silhouette.”
0dWJj TIL that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger waited until his last day in office to announce the commutation of convicted killer Esteban Nuñez, the son of a powerful political ally, and then gave this explanation: “Of course you help a friend.”
p8r6Z TIL Hitler had France surrender in the same railway carriage at the same spot France and England made Germany surrender in WWI
pYMoN TIL that the 4th most important lamas of Tibetan Buddhism, supported the KMT and the ROC. He pledge that he would not reincarnate until the Republic of China retook the mainland.
VBJND TIL that Willie Littlechild, the former Grand Chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, attended a residential indigenous school and was the first “status Indian”to get a law degree in Alberta.