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TIL Germany still pays pensions to Nazy veterans.

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QeLE TIL that since 2000, the license plates of the District of Columbia (whose residents pay taxes to the federal government, but do not elect representatives or senators to congress) have featured the slogan “Taxation Without Representation”.
VBn4Z TIL Throughout history, only 8 people received Honorary citizenship of the United States. Sir Winston Churchill and Saint Teresa of Calcutta were the only ones to receive the honor during their lifetimes.
rNJXo TIL that there is no certain proof about how Repulse Bay in Hong Kong got its name.
R5ly4 TIL standard greetings likely evolved from handshaking to hierarchical bowing to handshaking, against which a French society was formed to abolish 'le shake-hands' as a vulgar English innovation
OJ6a TIL that when the screenwriter of Hotel Rwanda called the Rwandan embassy in Washington to get some information, the woman who picked up the phone actually turned out to be a one of the survivors who stayed at the hotel during the Rwandan Genocide.