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In 2011, my partner and I moved to New York. Straight from Austria without knowing what to expect.

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JP94 TIL Jeanne de Clisson, a Frenchwoman whose husband was beheaded for treason, swore revenge and sold her family lands to buy 3 warships. For the next 13 years she went on a pirating binge, targeting King Philip VI’s ships, & personally beheading French noblemen she captured with an axe.
OoGBa TIL There is 10 times more fresh water in the atmosphere than in all the rivers on Earth combined, and 50 times more tapped in the soil
E1D40 TIL that Best Buy removed the fighting video game “Primal Rage” from its shelves after an Arizona woman complained that her 11-year-old son had faithfully portrayed one of the game’s gorilla-like character’s “golden shower/urination” fatality move.
N7jME TIL that before the Civil War, Christmas was not an official holiday in the United States
kJeaE TIL Actress Jessica Alba's frequently sued Honest Company has lost 91.88% of its share value since it was listed two years ago.