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TIL the Kosovo War is an ongoing conflict, as the Kosovo region is still administered by a United Nations Mission. Even though Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, it is not recognized by all countries worldwide, and Serbia still considers Kosovo part of its territory.

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j5Kj TIL: Canada has one fifth of the world’s freshwater.
6KXJ TIL Stalin’s body double was teased in school because of the resemblance with Stalin
VB7Nk TIL in the 1980s Bill Benter developed a statistical model that identified factors that could lead to making successful Hong Kong horse racing predictions. As one of the most successful analysis computer software programs in the horse racing market, it helped Benter win nearly $1 billion.
gpj7 TIL the collective nouns we use for animals (gaggle of geese, herd of deer etc.) mostly come from the Book of St Alban’s published in 1486. It also included terms for professions such as a melody of harpists, a sentence of judges and a superfluity of nuns.
rNVm0 TIL that so many ships were abandoned by prospectors during the 1849 Gold Rush in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Cove that it was called a "forest of masts." Some ships became bars, hotels, and brothels—where much of the gold was spent. Today, the ships lie beneath 50-story buildings.