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TIL that a man devoted a year of his life to taking the bible as literally as he could: never wearing two kinds of clothing material, never sitting where a woman on her period might have and even stoning adulterers.

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W77Ad TIL more than 35,000 Americans served in the Canadian Army in WWI, accounting for nearly 10% of all Canadian soldiers
Mm97 TIL because of its very low freezing point, whale oil saw widespread use in the aerospace industry.
8eEKK TIL The term CARE package is a registered trademark and originally referred to aid sent to Europe after WW2 by the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe
o1KL TIL that Asian men are found to be less attractive than men of other races, even Asian women rated men of other races as more attractive than Asian men.
nWelr TIL that Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild was arrested by the Nazis in 1938, he was released only after lengthy negotiations between the family and the Nazis and upon payment of $21,000,000($387,575,106.38), believed to have been the largest ransom payment in history for any individual.