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

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No jews in town:"Privilegium de non tolerandis Judaeis"

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TIL - Stalin was never really an 'antisemite'

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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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TIL the day after Thanksgiving is sometimes called 'Brown Friday'

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TIL 10 year old girl saved 100 people from tsunami

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TIL I can toss @AOU shekels like a drunken sailor at a strip club.

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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 Ophra's minion James Arthur Ray killed three people in a sweat lodge and soon after was simply released from jail

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til the phrase ‘three sheets in the wind’ originates from a nautical term

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TIL Marines raised the Confederate flag in the Battle of Okinawa

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TIL my new favorite word

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

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TIL polar bears can swim for long distances and steadily for many hours to get from one piece of ice to another. Their large paws are specially adapted for swimming, which they’ll use to paddle through the water while holding their hind legs flat like a rudder.

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

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TIL Beefalo, also referred to as cattalo or the Canadian hybrid, are a fertile hybrid offspring of domestic cattle (Bos taurus), usually a male in managed breeding programs, and the American bison (Bison bison), usually a female in managed breeding programs.

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TIL John F Kennedy was secretly a meth head

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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: They give out oscars to hairstylists

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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 James Cameron sold the rights to 'Terminator' back in the '80s for $1 — and it's one of his biggest regrets

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TIL Catholic Church wealth is impossible to calculate

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TIL Silver purity ring is the symbol of chastity before marriage

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TIL former MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry reportedly approached the makers of Vaseline about endorsing the product and was allegedly rebuffed with a one-line postcard reading, "We soothe babies' backsides, not baseballs."

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