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

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TIL The Westernmost point of Virginia is further west than Detroit by quite a bit [575x1280 - 589KB]

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

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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 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 the Baghdad battery

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TIL America has two flags, and we should probably be using the other one.

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TIL The Unicorn Is the National Animal of Scotland

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TIL John Denver was a great American

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TIL Water level of Lake Kinneret

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

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

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TIL Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara offended Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and his wife Akie by serving them dinner in a shoe. There is nothing lowlier than a shoe in Japanese culture.

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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 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 that after a Pope dies, his body must be buried intact, his body parts cannot be donated.

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TIL Steve Bannon fucked children at epstein's in Paris

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TIL types of plastic

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TIL ancient Romans used urine to brush their teeth, as a mouthwash to whiten their teeth and they even used it as a laundry detergent to wash their clothes off until 1700’s.

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What Language Do People Speak in the Balkans, Anyway?

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TIL - Stalin was never really an 'antisemite'

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TIL about the Backfire Effect: Why Facts Don’t Always Change Minds

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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 the CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups.

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