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TIL that "Harambee" is the official motto of Kenya

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jowv TIL That in Israel there is a prison that was secret from the world and Israel itself and was only discovered in 2003. It is believed to still exist today.
69mdm TIL that owls have long necks under all their feathers
Me6p0 TIL Lake Baikal contains ~23% out of the whole of Earth's fresh surface water
8BEP TIL that at the end of 2006, Reddit only had 39 subreddits. More than 340,000 subreddits were created since then.
d8bdQ TIL, Robert L. Scott Jr., a retired USAF Brigadier General and WWII flying ace, in 1980 at the age of 72, gained national attention by hiking the 1,900 miles (3050 km) of the Great Wall of China. The journey took 94 days and he sustained himself with 1,200 oatmeal raisin cookies.