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TIL that in soviet Russia there was a civilian award for bearing and raising 7 or more children called “The Order of Maternal Glory”

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x6ABk TIL of the town Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha, Québec. The the only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.
kJXK1 TIL about the Chesterfield Canal Dredging Mistake. In 1978, UK workers cleaning up the canal removed a heavy chain from the bottom, only for that section of the canal to drain completely away. The chain was attached to a plug, installed there 200 years previously for maintenance, and long forgotten.
PYbyV TIL In traditional societies that have no access to processed sugars and white flour, many indigenous people have no cavities, and flash smiles with perfect pearly white teeth, even though tooth brushing is rare. The next generation of natives who eat processed food began to develop crooked teeth
nWoW TIL that, when the US was founded, the government could, and often did, unilaterally shut down corporations if they exceeded their authority or caused public harm.
RAv1 TIL the Pharaoh Sesostris defeated an army so easily that he built a vagina statue in their capital because they “fought like women”.