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TIL Jews fought side-by-side with Muslim soldiers to defend Jerusalem against the Crusaders.

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kRZm TIL the eighth commandment is interpreted as “Thou shalt not steal” in Christianity and as “Thou shalt not kidnap (people)” in Judaism. Which is not to imply that theft is permitted: it is forbidden elsewhere in the Tanakh.
VND0 TIL comedian-actress Janeane Garofalo didn’t know she was married for 20 years to her writer ex-boyfriend, now a TV exec producer, believing their drunken Las Vegas wedding wasn’t official since they didn’t file any papers at a courthouse. Her “husband” discovered the truth before his real wedding.
neJ6d TIL of Lorenc Peter Elfred Freuchen was a 6’7” tall walrus-spearing, peg-legged, anti-Semite-clobbering Danish explorer and badass old-school 1900s explorer who escaped certain death by molding his own faeces into a knife and using it to carve through a solid wall of ice.
RO0l TIL the SR-71 blackbird plane designed in 1960’s is still the fastest plane on Earth
oReG8 TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843