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TIL Israel is roughly the same size as New Jersey by area.

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VvjZ TIL American soldiers during WWII started a riot in New Zealand because they didn’t segregate their bars and they didn’t want to drink with non-white people.
Y7Rkr TIL that Linda, a widely used synchronization model for parallel computation, employed in both academia and industry, is named after Linda Lovelace, a porn actress who appeared in the iconic 70s porn film "Deep Throat"
MVZK TIL That, in an American experiment, when showed gay porn, 80% of the homophobes had an erection compared to 34% of the non-homophobic subjects
VMm4B TIL: The Market Theater Gum Wall in Seattle, WA is covered in several inches thick of gum, the wall is 15 feet high by 50-foot-long.
7rj1O TIL the lone Supreme Court justice to dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson grew up in a household with a light-skinned, blue-eyed slave who was treated much like a family member. The slave, Robert Harlan, was believed to be John Harlan’s older half-brother. Even John’s father believed Robert was his son.