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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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YjOG TIL of arctic explorer Peter Freuchen who took a 1000-mile dogsled trip across Greenland, starred in an Oscar-winning film, amputated his own toes, escaped a Nazi death sentence, cut his way out of a blizzard shelter with a knife made from his frozen feces, and won The $64,000 Question game show.
kNae TIL USA is the ONLY developed country that provide no type of financial assistance to new parents.
R5mmQ TIL about world's hardest dish suodiu, a Chinese street food where you suck spicy flavor off stir-fried stones, then spit them out. It’s cheap, oddly popular, and you can keep the rocks!
epxo4 TIL Mountain Dew was originally created as a moonshine mixer. The soda received its name for the slang used for "mountain-brewed" moonshine: Mountain Dew
woXo TIL the slang term for prostitute is believed to have originated from Civil War General Joseph Hooker because he was a hardcore partier with many ladies.