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TIL that Subbotnik is a day in Russia when people in many cities volunteer to clean the streets, a tradition that began after the Russian Revolution and persists today.

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m1Lpo TIL Kenyan science teacher Peter Tabichi who used to give 80% of his salary to poor students, wins $1m global award for World's best teacher in 2019
9wZrB TIL that when U.S. General George S. Patton died in late 1945, the French government offered to bury him beside Napoleon in Paris out of gratitude for his role in the liberation of France and western Europe.
5VrBB TIL that the first photograph of a person was an accident.
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