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TIL that if USC is a country, it would be 12th in the number of medals won in the Olympics

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loZ4a TIL that the first free black community in the New World, Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, was created by the Spanish government of St Augustine, Florida, in 1738. They began to offer asylum as early as 1687 to slaves of the British colonies, and often fought the British alongside each other.
b6Rdj TIL when Freud developed the concepts of the id, ego, and superego in psychology, the original German words he used literally meant "The it, I, and over-I". Id, ego, and superego were the words chosen by English translators
Xm9E TIL Canada has it’s own captain America, “Johnny Canuck”, who in his comics, fought nazis with a hockey stick and ended ww2.
PYO7w TIL that gorillas sing happy songs while they eat. They don't sing the same song every time and they even sing louder while eating their favourite food.
xVjnB TIL that males who have married into the British royal family can never become King: they only have the opportunity of being Prince consort (however, females who marry in have the opportunity of becoming Queen).