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TIL Morocco is the United States oldest ally.

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apdZ TIL Cancer is the #1 cause of disease-related deaths in children. In 2010 the American Cancer Society only directed $0.01 (a penny) to childhood cancer research for every dollar of public support.
b9mA7 TIL that the word ‘gyrle’, now spelled ‘girl’, used to be gender neutral. It was used to refer to any young child.
44Xw TIL that a police force can reject an applicant if his IQ score is too high
wLBO8 TIL That the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel died of Tuberculosis at the age of 26 and did most of his major work in a span of about 7 years while living in poverty. The equivalent of the Nobel prize in the field of mathematics; the Abel prize, is named after him.
VBgN8 TIL that the writer of “Jingle Bells” fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War even though he was from Massachusetts and his father was a chaplain in the Union army.