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TIL that England doesn't have its own national anthem so God Save the Queen (the national anthem of the United Kingdom as a whole) is often used in its place. Candidates for an English national anthem include "Jerusalem", "Land of Hope and Glory"and "I Vow to Thee, My Country".

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07pj TIL in the Spanish town Brunete council volunteers will send dog poo in the mail to dog owners who are seen failing to pick up their dog’s faeces in public.
G4bN TIL of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was charged and executed in 2004 for allegedly setting his house on fire to murder his 3 children in 1991. All the evidence against him was debunked by experts in fire investigations 5 years later.
e05GD TIL A guest at a luxury hotel in Miami’s South Beach requested a professionally trained, camera-ready monkey, and meant it. The monkey was apparently needed to film a commercial. The concierge added animal casting to his resume.
781rx TIL that the moon is rusting. Lunar hematite which is formed through oxidation of lunar surface iron by the oxygen from the Earth’s upper atmosphere that has been continuously blown to the lunar surface by solar wind when the Moon is in Earth’s magnetotail.
WaZA TIL that parades are a means of political combat in Northern Ireland. Unionists and nationalists hold hundreds of competing parades that may cause violence if they enter territory belonging to “the other side”. The government often bans/reroutes parades to avoid problems.