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TIL The country of Swaziland renamed itself Eswatini in 2018.
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TIL: The Pirate Bay once tried to purchase their own island in an attempt to create their own country without any copyright laws.
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TIL in the 1920s pedestrian deaths were considered public tragedies with monuments built for killed children and their mothers given honorary emblems. Then the automotive industry created the term ‘jaywalker’ to shift the blame onto the victims and ridicule them.
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TIL newspapers are so big (broadsheet) because the british government began taxing newspapers in 1712 based on the number of their pages.
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TIL starting from second crusade many in Christendom believed in a powerful Indian Christian King named Prestor John who was about to come with his powerful army from east to crush the muslim armies.
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TIL that the character 'Sheen Estevez' from Jimmy Neutron was initially intended to be of Japanese descent.