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TIL 100 year old citizens of Barbados have their portrait printed on postal stamps to celebrate their anniversaries

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GYOr4 TIL the US Navy commissioned an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer named after Sir Winston Churchill, only the fourth time a US Navy ship to carry British citizens name.
KOYLQ TIL that between 1990 and 2005, China’s fight against poverty accounted for more than three-quarters of global poverty reduction and helped the world reached the UN millennium development goal of halving extreme poverty.
oBkaW TIL about Daniel Lambert (1770 – 1809), a prison guard and animal breeder who was the largest man in recorded history during his lifetime. He once fought a bear in the streets, and became so poor that he was forced to put himself on display.
E1bP TILAfter the fall of Rome, a new illiterate Europe arose. The Irish saved civilization by copying lost books. These astonishingly decorated Irish manuscripts of the early medieval period are today the great jewels of libraries in England, France, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and even Russia.
Eb1p TIL that the first instance of Telephone hold music was a mistake that was caused by a loose piece of wire touching a metal girder at a factory. It turned the building into a giant radio antenna that would play music from a next-door radio station when people were put on hold.