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TIL Spain has invited Jews descended from those expelled after the Inquisition to return, settle, and become citizens.

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PYgen TIL that Hitler never visited a single concentration camp or death camp and no written order for the “Final Solution” has ever been found. He also never spoke about it, even to his closest entourage in order to distance himself. This is used by Holocaust deniers as evidence against the Holocaust.
R7Wa9 TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
YpKN7 TIL that Antonio López de Santa Anna, the famous Mexican general of the 1800s, also served as president of Mexico on 12 separate occasions over 22 years, and for 3 different governments.
x6K91 TIL the old film Kevin watched in Home Alone isn’t a real movie.
R5kJ8 TIL Troll dolls were invented in 1959 by a Danish fisherman who couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a Christmas present. At its peak, 38,000 trolls were sold everyday until the hype faded away.