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TIL that District of Columbia (Washington, DC) is a member of Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

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OG8eY TIL that Craig Ferguson, the host of The Late Late Show would rip up his blue note cards (which contained potential questions for guests) as a way of signifying that what was coming wasn't really planned. Sometimes, that brought a lot of empty riffing with a celebrity who just couldn't keep up.
N7aKb TIL that there is a small town in South Africa established solely for the preservation of Afrikaans and the Afrikaner identity by keeping their language and culture alive.
x6JOw TIL about Dead Horse Bay's Glass Bottle Beach. A beach covered in glass bottles and other nonbiodegradable garbage from a land reclamation project in the 1950s now exposed due to erosion.
R7Zr7 TIL: The River Thames is one of the cleanest Rivers in the world that flows through a major city, after being declared biologically dead 50 years ago
BXQL TIL Bill Murray has no agent or publicist,and books all of his movies and appearances on his own.