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TIL Harambe means “all pull together” in Swahili, and is the official motto of Kenya

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OGkDR TIL that All Quiet on the Western Front had a sequel. Although the first book's protagonist dies at the end, the Road Back focuses on the return of his demoralized comrades to a ruined German society.
5YrXB TIL there's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole on the grounds of the monument. Its purpose is that of a surveying tool that's usually just a metal rod, but because of the location this special version was installed.
Zpj4 TIL That there is a place in the Gulf of Alaska, where two oceans meet, but do not mix.
8e7D4 TIL Despite his popularity in the west, Kublai Khan is not as popular in Mongolia as his brother Ariq Böke. While Kublai ruled by adopting Chinese principles and ruled from a Chinese palace, Ariq Böke re-embraced Mongolian culture and ruled briefly from a yurt.
Z86DD TIL a physics paper published in 2015 had 5,154 authors, breaking the record for largest number of contributors to a single research article. Only the first nine pages of the paper describe research on the size of the Higgs boson, while the remaining 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.