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TIL in North Korea, this year isn’t 2020; it is the year 108

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p8bwp TIL of Francis Salvador – elected to South Carolina’s Provincial Congress in 1774, he’s considered the first member of the Jewish faith to hold elective office in America. Killed in a joint Loyalist/Cherokee ambush in 1776, he became the first Jewish soldier to die for the Patriot cause.
KYWR TIL that in the Dawn of The Dead movies, the zombies with missing limbs were played by actual amputees
woXxY TIL The most powerful wind turbine generator worldwide today generates 14,7MW of electricity. It was developed for offshore wind farms
dEZE TIL Marc Gross uses Google Earth and drones to shoot elephants with Capsaicin paintballs, deterring them from poachers
epEP6 TIL the word Utopia was invented by Renaissance Humanist scholar and writer Sir Thomas More, in a fictional 16th-century novel about an ideal society. He was eventually beheaded by Henry VIII for refusing to recognize the King's Church Of England.