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TIL: Jews make up 62% of religious hate crime victims in the United States.

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logvG TIL The first expedition by two members of the French Academy of Sciences to determine the circumference of the Earth (and thereby the length of the meter) was hampered by the French Revolution, and the second one by the Napoleonic wars
p8jee TIL Earl grey tea is named after British Prime Minister Charles Grey, who abolished slavery across the British empire and passed the great reform act.
WkyNo TIL: John Spinello, the inventor of the game 'Operation' sold it for $500 USD in 1964 to a toy inventor. It has since made more than $40 million in sales for the Milton Bradley Company. In 2014, he had to crowdfund to afford a $25,000 operation to fix his teeth.
5L4r TIL of “The Case of the Stolen Smell” in which an innkeeper accused a poor student of stealing the fumes of his cooking by eating when the innkeeper was cooking to flavour his dull food. The judge ordered the student to pay the innkeeper with the sound of money by passing it from one hand to another
ZNMY TIL the chainsaw was invented to be utilized during childbirth…