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

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TIL holocaust survivor Chaim Ferster cheated death in eight Nazi concentration camps during World War Two.

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Could terrorists really black out the power grid? | Utility Dive

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TIL - Stalin was never really an 'antisemite'

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What Language Do People Speak in the Balkans, Anyway?

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TIL James Pierpont originally composed the song Jingle Bells in 1857 for children celebrating Thanksgiving at his Boston Sunday School. It gained popularity so quickly that it was repeated again at Christmas, and then again, and again, and again.

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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 according to the National Turkey Foundation, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 sat down to eat their first meal on the moon, their foil food packets contained roasted turkey.

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Leviathan gas field - Wikipedia

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TIL Wiliam Russel: Lord Mayor Of London is a British financier who previously worked for Merrill Lynch

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TIL the Myth of the Connecticut Pickle Law: Though there is no law that specifically states this, there are several statutes, regulations, and articles that address the incident of the pickles that did not bounce.

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

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

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TIL a silverback gorilla can lift up to 815 kilograms (1800 pounds) of dead weight. Meanwhile, a well trained human could lift a maximum of 410 kilograms (900 pounds) - half as much that the gorilla can manage.

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TIL I learned they tried to kill Jeff Rense in 2015

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Today I learned you can make mash potatoes using potato chips, most notably Pringles

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TIL Dee Snider toured with his own self-tribute band

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TIL: Don't be an idiot that invests anything in a black community... j/k I knew that

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TIL: "les yeux sans visage" is what they were singing in the background of Billy Idol's Eyes Without a Face

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TIL a meteoroid becomes a meteorite once it hits the ground

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TIL the dunce cap has long been a visual symbol of idiocy and punishment, but was once seen as something closer to a wizard’s hat. While today we understand the goofy-looking cone hat as denoting some kind of intellectual failing, it actually began as a symbol of respected scholars.

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Its only March & yet there have been over 7.5 million abortions this year...

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You can kill yourself from holding in a sneeze

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TIL the stick may be the world’s oldest toy

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