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TIL there is a thin wire that circles Manhatten (and other cities) that permits Orthodox Jews to act as if they were inside their home for their day of rest.

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YpQ6d TIL that donut holes were invented by a 16 yr old sailor named Hanson Gregory. Gregory was tired of eating greasy and undercooked donuts with raw dough on the insides, so he decided to make donuts but with holes in them.
yQbbv TIL of the General delegation for the French language and languages of France (aka the French Language Police) whose job is to research emerging English words and come up with French equivalents to keep the language alive.
roEd TIL that a DNA study shows that the entire indigenous population in the New World before 1492 might have been descendants of only 70 people who crossed the Beringia before the Ice Age ended
PY7eJ TIL As a child, as an alternative to a teddy bear, Jane Goodall's father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee - which started her early love of animals. Today, Jubilee still sits on Goodall's dresser in London.
M7xo7 TIL Tourism was popular in ancient rome. The most popular attraction were the pyramids of giza, where local tour guides fed misinformation to the Romans to draw them in and profit from them