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TIL Dolly Parton gives over 3 million children a year books, through her charitable Dolly Parton Imagination Library program.

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xMLD TIL the British army created a special force of “Facebook warriors,” skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare in the information age.
5YEp9 TIL UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention was created to preserve the Temple of Abu Simbel in Egypt. After the Nasser Dam was built, the temple was briefly submerged underwater and a large effort was undertaken to relocate the mountain it was carved on and rebuild the temple piece by piece.
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