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TIL that crows can hold grudges for up to 17 years and pass their beef down to their kids.

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8KoP TIL that in Israel there is something called the “Jewish Internet Defense Force”, a government run propagandist movement that hires Israeli students, puts them in front of a computer googling to find anything that criticises Israel and had them try to remove it or claim it is a lie…
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