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TIL the Israeli intelligence agency (MOSSAD) ran a high end diving resort in Sudan for years as a cover to smuggling Jewish Ethiopians back to Israel.

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oBVKR TIL that Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister and a lifelong republican.
LBKr TIL that in ancient Rome the punishment for parricide, killing one’s own parent(s), was to be whipped repeatedly and then sewn up in a leather sack along with a serpent, a dog, a rooster and a monkey. The sack was then thrown into a river.
ErVx TIL Sperm whales are so called because their heads are filled with large amounts of oily fluid, which whalers thought was sperm. Scientists still aren’t sure what it’s there for
Y8Pv TIL of a Russian all-female bomber unit flying biplanes against the Germans in WW2. While two pilots distracted the searchlights, a third would cut her engines and glide in to deliver her bombs; 23,000 missions were flown and the enemy dubbed them “Night Witches”
Vkam TIL Terry Pratchett’s family motto is Noli Timere Messorem (Don’t fear the Reaper)