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TIL that, due to him being unable to celebrate his bar mitzvah at the age of 13 due to World War I, Yisrael Kristal celebrated his bar mitzvah on his 113th birthday instead. Kristal was already the world's oldest living man and the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor during this time.

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ym9w TIL the world’s largest soup kitchen is the Golden Temple, the holiest temple for Sikhs, which is located in Amritsar, Punjab, India. The Golden Temple can serve free food for up to 100,000 - 300,000 people every day, regardless of faith, religion, or background.
W8Yo TIL the Black Panther Party provided a free breakfast for over 10,000 children every single day after learning that a substantial breakfast was vital to supporting schooling.
ooKo TIL In 1934, Arizona almost went to war with California over water rights
wo8aM TIL: Garbage trucks in Taiwan use Für Elise to let people know that the garbage pickup is happening, in kind of the same way ice cream trucks use tunes in the U.S. to get people to line up for frozen dessert.
BkEr TIL the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and possibly Indian alphabets are all derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs via the Phoenician alphabet.