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TIL that Mexico sent nearly 200 members of the military on a 20-day mission to support the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

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YpDpP TIL as of April 2018, Swaziland has been renamed as Eswatini, one of the reasons behind the King's decision to rename the country was that "...abroad, people refer to us as Switzerland."
n1lG TIL the American Revolutionary War is technically classified as a World War by historians
VMBbB TIL that because a patch of clovers usually contains around 10,000 plants in 13 square feet, you only have to search an area around the size of an office desk to find a four leaf clover.
PYOve TIL about The Man in the Red Bandana, Welles Crowther, an equities trader who is credited with saving as many as 18 people in the south tower on 9/11 before losing his own life in the collapse. Every year his Alma Mater Boston College honors him during a football game by wearing red bandanas.
WkG48 TIL In Afghanistan they make beautiful carpets that depict the decades of wars and violence the country has gone through. Instead of traditional motives, these rugs show drones, tanks and guns and began after the Soviet invasion in the 1980s, continuing after the NATO-invasion in the 2000s.