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TIL That the Dominican Republic offered to take 100,000 Jews in 1938. Only 645 made it and each Jew was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule and a horse.

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VMLn4 TIL the Spanish Flu got its name during WWI. No one fighting in the war wanted to admit that thousands of their troops were dying to some fast spreading disease. However, Spain was neutral, so they reported on it, making people think they were the source.
VBBXG TIL about Jordan Romero a US Mountain Climber who at 13 was the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, having been too young to gain a permit from Nepal this climb was started from Tibet, China has since imposed minimum age limits for permits meaning this record cannot everbe broken
v1Z9D TIL that Steve Irwin paid for one of his security guards to go and train MMA at one of the best gyms in the USA, that security guard, Kyle Noke, would go on to fight in the UFC and credits Irwin as a major reason why he achieved his dreams.
rNWmx TIL - in 1974 the band Ace had their only hit, How Long (has this been going on). The song is not about a cheating girlfriend - it’s about the band’s bass player, who was moonlighting with another band
R5Rd9 TIL Wales and Pennsylvania are two ends of the same coal deposit. Known as the "Transatlantic Seam" it was split by millions of years of continental drift