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RLAj TIL that until 2005, Toronto had a St. James-Bond Church, formed by the 1928 merger of the Bond Street Congregational Church and the St. James Square Presbyterian Church.
1aLbr TIL President Abraham Lincoln exchanged many letters with Karl Marx, and the two men considered themselves friends. Marx, a journalist at the time, wrote extensively about the Civil War and its significance to the struggle of workers and oppressed people about the world
jNXMp TIL in 1920s - 1960s Germany, there was a trend to pose in a photo with a person in a polar bear costume. In thousands of photos, the bear doesn't change much in looks or poses, but history advances around the polar bear: from smiling beachgoers to smiling Nazis to smiling American G.I.s.
GaeJ TIL: South Africa has no legally defined capital city. Power is shared between Cape Town (Parliament), Bloemfontein (Administrative), Pretoria (President & Cabinet) and Johannesburg (Constitutional Court).
5Y1pB TIL strawberries are the only fruit that do not continue to ripen after they are picked.