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TIL the last Saturday of each month in Rwanda is Umuganda day, which means 'coming together in common purpose', when adult Rwandans are required to join in country wide clean-up tasks like picking up litter

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R5xwj TIL The ship "Conception" burned down and killed 33 scuba divers and one crewman in 2019, the captain of the ship, Jerry Boylan, jumped off the ship before anyone else. Four crewmen and the captain survived.
nxNY TIL that exercise can be just as powerful as anti-depressants when treating depression
rx4 TIL The first Director of the CIA admitted the existence of UFOs
8aYWV TIL That Microsoft Window's security used to be so bad you could literally type in an IP address and remote-crash someone's PC
wWd7 TIL: In “Batman and Captain America”, the Joker teamed up with a character named Red Skull. However, on learning the character was actually a nazi and not just pretending, the Joker turned on him, proclaimed “I may be a criminal lunatic, but I’m an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!”