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STICKY You ever heard of Matar judíos? [720x2845 - 835KB]

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TIL Don Rickles befriended mobster "Crazy" Joe Gallo following performance at Copacabana. Gallo, who he ribbed mercilessly despite being warned not to do so, accepted ribbings in good humor and invited him to Umberto's Clam House. Rickles declined. That night, a gunfight erupted killing Gallo.

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Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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TIL actor Tony Randall maintained that any publicity an actor generates should be about his work, not himself. "The public knows only one thing about me: I don't smoke."

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TIL the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking occurring in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the evening of November 22, 1987, involving at least two unknown individuals.

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TIL of Agis IV, a Spartan king who tried to fix the economy with immigrants

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TIL Norsemen discovered North America around 1000 AD and called it Vinland

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TIL that the Minchiate was a deck of playing cards similar to the tarot, but with forty trumps.

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TIL Cambodia uses landmine-hunting rats specially trained to sniff out and detect TNT explosives inside landmines and unexploded bombs.

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TIL genetic testing confirmed the existence of polar bear-grizzly bear hybrids, also known as ‘grolar bears’ or ‘pizzly bears’.

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TIL there's not one specific chemical that gives bacon its smell -- it's the combination of 150 different compounds that create the heavenly smell.

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TIL only 4 states: Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana don't officially recognize 'Juneteenth' as a holiday.

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TIL: Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt....huh, I never cared to learn about him

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TIL bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

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TIL Polaris designated α Ursae Minoris commonly the North Star or Pole Star, is the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor. It is very close to the north celestial pole, making it the current northern pole star.

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TIL pole dance combines dance and acrobatics centered on a vertical pole. This performance art form takes place not only in gentleman's clubs as erotic dance, but has also recently gained popularity as a mainstream form of fitness.

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TIl Dick Pole is a former professional baseball player and a former pitching coach. A right-handed pitcher, Pole was 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall and weighed 210 pounds (95 kg) during his playing career.

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TIL in Canada, the term polecat is sometimes applied to electric utility linemen. In Southern United States dialect, the term polecat is sometimes used as a colloquial nickname for a skunk.

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TIL Kamehameha Day on June 11 is a public holiday in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It honors Kamehameha the Great, the monarch who first established the unified Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.

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TIL geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 to 60 cm (0.64 to 24 inches). Most geckos cannot blink, but they often lick their eyes to keep them clean and moist.

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TIL numerals have their equivalent of capital and lower case.

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TIL a yes–no question, formally known as a polar question or a general question is a question whose expected answer is either "yes" or "no". Formally, they present an exclusive disjunction, a pair of alternatives of which only one is acceptable.

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TIL that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

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TIL there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes.

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TIL a pole star or polar star is a star, preferably bright, closely aligned to the axis of rotation of an astronomical object.

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TIL that the catchphrase "Kowabunga !" was popularized by the NBC program Howdy Doody?

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