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TIL Cotton Eye Joe is a Swedish song, not American

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W77Ad TIL more than 35,000 Americans served in the Canadian Army in WWI, accounting for nearly 10% of all Canadian soldiers
6R07 TIL 3 men from Yemen tried to sue NASA for invading Mars, claiming they had inherited it from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.
bGr0 Request for identification of frequent TILs reposts. Provide TIL reddit link as a top-level comment.
OGDA4 TIL: That in 2008, a judge in New Zealand made a young girl a ward of court so that she could change the name she hated - Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. Judge Rob Murfitt said that the name embarrassed the nine-year-old and could expose her to teasing.
4krON TIL the flag of Bangladesh is a red circle with a green background, but the red circle is offset slightly toward the hoist so that it appears centered when the flag is flying