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

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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 the Baltic origin theory of Homer's tales

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TIL: Aparently Aziz Ansari has a new NetFlix special on Wokeness, directed by Spike Jonze

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TIL the ownership of CNN was recently transferred to Warner Bros. from AT&T

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TIL Shared toilets were common in ancient Rome

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TIL blood type O protects against malaria

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TIL that the cause of exploding head syndrome may be a minor seizure in the temporal lobe?

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TIL that Appalachia is the Balkan of America [0:23]

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TIL in the early morning hours on the day of his death, John Belushi was visited separately by friends Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

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TIL Water level of Lake Kinneret

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TIL Dune is the best-selling sci-fi novel ever.

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TIL Poale Zion

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TIL - Rick Wilson, a political strategist appointed to the DoD by Dick Cheney, thinks 'antivaxx' parents should *literally* be thrown in camps.

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TIL American flamingos’ long legs appear as though their knees bend backwards, which is not the case. Flamingos actually stand on their “tip-toes” – meaning the prominent joint on their leg is their ankle! Their knee is hidden by feathers and is located close to the bird’s body.

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Today I learned Fred C.Koch was a founding member of the John Birch Society.

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A Boy Gets Beat Up Every Day by a Bully... You Know Him As [03:26]

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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 Plan Andinia

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TIL the newspaper industry sensationalized the "War Of The World" panic to prove to advertisers, and regulators, that radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted.

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TIL Christmas celebrated by 81% of non-Christians in US

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TIL Baldur von Schirach, the head of the Hitler Jugend, was half American and was a descendant of two signers of the Declaration of Independence.

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Bunghole

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TIL the legacy of Canada's notorious homosexuality detection device: the fruit machine was created as an ostensibly scientific way to detect homosexuals, so they could be fired from their government jobs or pre-screened before being offered employment in the first place.

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TIL the 50-Star American Flag Began as a High School Project—and It Only Got a B

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