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TIL Belize is a Commonwealth state like Canada!

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7rZaX TIL of the 21 US ships reported damaged or sunk in the Pearl Harbor attack, all but 3 were repaired and returned to service. One of those three was a pre-WWI dreadnought that the US used for target practice.
5YZEk TIL Tea clippers used to race to be the first to deliver their cargo, the price being to sell their cargo at a premium
yyJa TIL There was a short lived French version of “The Office”; in the pilot Jim put Dwight’s stuff in cheese instead of jello.
p8dwp TIL of Witold Pilecki a Polish Cavalry officer who volunteered to be smuggled into Auschwitz in order to later escape and tell of the horrors.
xVL57 TIL “night owls" people have different brain functions than “early morning” people. That difference is the reason why we should rethink the 9-to-5 workday, say researchers.