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TIL There's an International Non-Binary People's Day, and it's 14 July - precisely between International Women's and International Men's Days

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QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."
ddXE TIL Italy only became a unified country in 1861 by consolidating several smaller states under one centralized government.
R5g7Q TIL that while Harland Sanders was a real person, he wasn't a real Colonel. He received the honorary title of Kentucky Colonel when he was 44. He didn't found KFC until he was 61 and he lived to be 90.
5V7kn TIL where the word "Gerrymander" comes from. The 1812 Massachusetts Congress redrew the state districts to give their party electoral advantage, which Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed into law. A local paper compared the shape of one district to a salamander, coining the term "Gerry-mander", which stuck.
kOa9B TIL Pope John Paul ll and Pope Francis are honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters