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TIL during Christmas of 1914, a truce was held between Germany and the UK. They decorated their shelters, exchanged gifts across no mans land and played a game of football between themselves.

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9ydG TIL about the town of Kitsault, B.C. which was completely abandoned over thirty years ago… With the power still on.
7PaM TIL- London is now the financial capital of the world, no longer New York City
9wKVB TIL that there is a town in Oregon named Boring. It’s humorously paired with the town of Dull, Scotland, and the village of Bland, Australia, to promote tourism in all three places.
mJE TIL convicted pedophiles in Russia can choose between jail time or chemical castration
JbP8 TIL a young Xhosa girl had a vision instructing the tribe to kill all the cattle and destroy the crops, as a sacrifice to the ancestors who would rise up and drive the white settlers into the sea. Thus began the ‘Great Cattle Killing’ after which over 40,000 Xhosa died in the resulting famine.