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TIL The real meaning of "You Can't Have Your Cake And Eat It Too".

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4DYa TIL that people accused of witchcraft who underwent trial by water actually had ropes to pull them out if they sank. The notion that the ordeal was devised as a situation without any possibility of live acquittal, even if the outcome was ‘innocent’, is a modern exaggeration.
5VPyn TIL that we see wheels and turbines spin in the opposite direction due to the "wagon wheel effect," an optical illusion resulting from high speed
worRE TIL that Heinrich Himmler used the ancient Hindu text, Bhagvad Gita, as a justification of his crimes and compared himself and Hitler to the Hindu god Krishna.
4X4YR TIL In almost every country the world over, Jews have faced religious persecution but India is one of the few countries where Jews were never ill-treated.In 1948, after the formation of the state of Israel, 33000 Jews migrated to Israel leaving behind around 5000 Jews in India.
P1VV TIL Borat wasn’t speaking jibberish, but was actually speaking inside jokes for Israelis in Hebrew