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TIL the Dominican Republic once voted to join the United States, but the US Senate rejected them.

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4XABw TIL that in 2015, mist sprinklers, which cool the air, were placed near the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Many visitors to the museum were upset, saying the shower-like misters evoked memories of Nazi-era gas chambers. Nazi gas chambers were often disguised as showers.
NR0M TIL Mauritania and Jamaica are the only national flags to not contain any of the three most common flag colours: red, white, or blue
GY66J TIL: Am-Phu cave in Vietnam is decorated with "hell" themes: sculpted demons "and fanged devils bathed in sinister red light, where hands reach up from the waters below and river monsters threaten to gnash (visitors') souls to bits." It's located under the mountain associated with heaven.
W7bA TIL that the New Zealand All Blacks are the most winning team in any sport anywhere in the world.
vPNR TIL Harvard students celebrate ‘Incest-Fest’. Where the main goal is to have sex with as many people as possible instead of studying