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TIL there are around 35,000 archaeological sites in Israel, a country the size of New Jersey

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OGMOL TIL that the Capture of the USS Chesapeake in 1813, was one of the most deadly fights involving two ships, in the entire age of sail.
jNvNa TIL Charles Barkley was the first black baby born at a segregated, all-white town hospital in Leeds, Alabama and was in the first group of black students at his elementary school.
YReB TIL that in 1967 Australia lost their prime minster, as in they couldn’t find him
O8NX TIL Kat Cole Turned Cinnabon Into A $1 Billion Brand, and she doesn’t have a Bachelor’s Degree.
4kVw6 TIL that in 1988 a man who suffered from severe obsessive-compulsive behavior apparently cured himself when he shot a .22-caliber bullet through the front of his brain while attempting suicide