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TIL that there an African Union similar to the EU, and it plans to introduce a currency by 2023 called the Afro.

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OJN6 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.
xVv50 TIL there are more libraries than McDonald's in the United States, and over half of adults have library cards
e0YND TIL the term "boycott" is named after Charles Boycott, a 19th century English land-agent in Ireland who didn't lower rents for the tenants on the estate he managed. They withdrew their labor and began a campaign of isolation, including local shops refusing to serve him.
XEvp6 TIL of Arek Hersh, a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust as a child. At the age of 14, he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was tattooed with the number B7608 and had his only photographs of his family ripped away from him. The Holocaust killed 81 members of his family. Only his sister survived.
awQAZ TIL that around the world, there are more than 100 primitive ‘uncontacted’ tribes that live in complete isolation from the modern world. Contact with some of these tribes has been attempted, but is now limited because of a fear of violence and spreading diseases.