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TIL According to Biblical Scholars Rebecca was Three Years Old When She Got Engaged and Six When She Married Isaac

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W8gN TIL That 11 years after 9/11, a piece of one of the plane’s landing gear was found wedged in between two buildings three blocks away.
woLjY TIL of the Hubble-Barn unit of volume, arrived at by multiplying the size of an atomic nucleus by the length of the observable universe, equal to 13.1L.
JY0rk TIL the word ruthless stems from a (now obsolete) word 'ruth' which meant compassion or mercy. It was already considered archaic by 1637 when the poet Milton wrote: "Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth."
LQL9v TIL about the Henokiens, an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more
g06A TIL that Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Stalinist dictator of Romania was captured and put on trial on Christmas morning after a few days, given ten minutes to prepare his defense with his counsel, convicted by the afternoon and executed at 4 PM the same day