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TIL there is believed to be only one remaining Jew in Afghanistan. He has special permission to butcher his own meat according to Kosher law, and is caretaker to the only remaining synagogue in Kabul. Despite his family having emigrated to Israel, he himself refuses: "Why should I leave?"

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P1j4E TIL that typhoid fever and typhus are two different diseases, caused by two unrelated strains of bacteria. This was not known until the 1800s. The word “typhoid” means “resembling typhus.”
5VwdR TIL about Ohalo II. A 23,000 year old upper paleolithic settlement with the earliest evidence of brushwood huts/dwellings and of plant cultivation.
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xa91 TIL Only one month after release, Call of Duty: Black Ops players had already amassed 68,000 YEARS of playtime