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

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TIL the Baghdad battery

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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 When Hitler's chauffeur Erich Kempka was wondering around the occupied city, he was forced to join the Russians and drink vodka in celebration of victory

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TIL The Super Soaker water gun toy was invented by a black engineer

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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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TIL Pandas defecate up to 40 times per day

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TIL Water level of Lake Kinneret

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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 John Denver was a great American

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TIL the Baltic origin theory of Homer's tales

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Whorephobia

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

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TIL Clive Barker was a prostitute at young age

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

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

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

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

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The Shirky Principle [1280x848 - 1.28MB]

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TIL Plan Andinia

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TIL Transformers The Movie (1986) has a kill count of 73! That's brutal for a kid's movie!

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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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Bunghole

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