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TIL 4Kids Entertainment censored Sonic X in United States!

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dDQWd Today I learned there there is 1 Christian footballer in Egypt among 540 footballers in the top league despite the fact that Christians are 10% of Egypt's population
awxx0 TIL that 1 in 4 Americans could not answer correctly that the Earth revolves around the sun (npr.org, 2014)
GvWN TIL the memory loss associated with Alzheimer’s has been successfully reversed. In a small study using a 36-point, customized therapeutic program, 9 of 10 patients showed sustained improvement
9Yj9Q [TIL] that though Finland was allied with Germany during WW2, they refused to expel their native (and immigrant) Jewish population, with those serving in the army taking particular delight in speaking Hebrew around the SS and Wehrmacht in Finland.
Qj86 TIL Gordon Lightfoot was inspired to write “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” when he saw the name misspelled “Edmond” in Newsweek magazine two weeks after the sinking and felt it dishonored the memory of the 29 who died.