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TIL the Masai Tribe in Africa donated 14 cows to the United States after 9/11

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6LZX TIL there are only 2 countries in the world whose flags contain neither red, white, nor blue: Jamaica and Mauritania
E1nxV TIL the word 'jehovah’ is a latinised derivative of God's given name 'YHWH’, this translated abbreviation stemming from 4 Hebrew consonants called the ‘tetragrammaton’ considered too sacred to utter and whose letters were replaced by latin-speaking Christian scholars.
4XODg TIL that after Camilla Parker Bowles married Prince Charles, the Queen changed the rules of protocol so that her children and grandchildren don't have to bow/curtsy to Camilla if Charles is not present
JYKr1 TIL that Canada's nuclear escape bunker was built with a track around the interior vault and pullup bars so the soldiers assigned to it could stay fit during a nuclear apocalypse. The interior was painted in soft colors to try and minimize stress.
DRBJ TIL a cotton bag would need to reused every day for a year before it offset the environmental impact of one plastic bag. A canvas tote bag? 171 reuses to break even.