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TIL that Shakespeare is credited with creating the name Jessica in The Merchant of Venice

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a8vjM TIL that alleles have a big impact on your sexuality
4kXxg TIL that Spain has the longest high speed rail network in Europe and is second in the world behind China.
Jdel TIL that Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Chairman of Nestlé) said that the idea of water as a basic human right is “extreme”
9YpeD TIL the Indian government commissioned a 2-hour Bollywood feature film called "Toilet", designed to help eradicate the practice of public defecation.
dpyj TIL slash and burn practices in Indonesia have essentially turned the whole country into a perpetual forest fire, causing widespread pollution problems across all of Southeast Asia every year in the dry season.