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TIL There are up to 500,000 people of Palestinian descent in Chile

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4yD6 TIL in 1919 after becoming an officially secular country, Uruguay renamed the holidays of Christmas Day to “Family Day”, Holy Easter Week to “Tourism Week”, and Epiphany to “Children’s Day”
dQBZ TIL the Top Gun producers originally slated Toto to perform “Danger Zone”, but they couldn’t due to legal conflicts. Bryan Adams refused because he felt the movie glorified war. REO Speedwagon wouldn’t unless they could write other songs for the soundtrack. Finally they settled on Kenny Loggins.
BZjD TIL that when Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s he used to rake the leaves out of his family pool, not knowing that his secret service men were replenishing the leaves.
9w4OX TIL that around 1226, a Vietnamese prince fled Vietnam with a large number of servants. He ended up in Korea, where King Kojong of the Goryeo Dynasty welcomed him. Today about 600 households in South Korea can trace their ancestry to him
0WZN TIL that the penis of a male lake duck can reach the same length as the animal itself