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TIL of Sai, a commune in the Orne department in France. It has a population of 222 and its inhabitants are known as Sayiens (male) and Sayiennes (female).

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GYeY7 TIL over 1.3 million Indian soldiers fought for the British in WW1
XEwV6 TIL of "Artist's Shit", an artwork that consists of 90 tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams of the artist's feces. The cans are steel, and cannot be x-rayed or scanned to determine the contents, and opening a can would cause it to lose its value; thus, the true contents are unknown
6KmJ TIL: A Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he can land the plane blind with curtained cockpit windows.The plane crashed at the landing strip and came to rest upside down killing 70 people.
MevVV Today I learned global company Unilever "makes and sells products under more than 1,000 brand names worldwide. Two billion people use them on any given day." Some of their brands include Dove, Klondike, Hellman's, Lipton, Magnum, Ben and Jerry's, Axe, Q-tips, St. Ives, Popsicle, and Vaseline.
ANLpn TIL that Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) wrote that criminals are distinguished from noncriminals by multiple physical anomalies and that these anomalies were able to predict the type of crime (theft, robbery, murder, arson)