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TIL that the official name for ‘Mexico’ is the “United Mexican States.”

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gMyjD TIL that the Australians invented a boomerang grenade during World War 1
69EdQ TIL U.S. songwriter Billy Davis rewrote a UK jingle for the Coca-Cola Company. The song 'Buy the World A Coke' was rewritten again because people kept calling radio stations asking for the tune to be played. It subsequently became "I'd Like to Teach The World to Sing" and reached #13 on Billboard.
mxRLE TIL that the ending theme to Muppet Babies was actually the instrumental theme to another, failed, Muppet show
7rQLb TIL anteaters are incapable of producing their own digestive acids. They instead use formic acid found in the stinging venom of the ants they eat, which essentially means the ants are dissolved in their own acid.
ryww TIL there is a mysterious and controversial monument located in Elbert County, Ga. which is sometimes referred to as an ‘American Stonehenge’. The monument stands over nineteen feet tall and conveys a set of ten guidelines etched in eight distinct languages.