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TIL: Israel is the only country to revive an unspoken language and establish it as its national tongue.

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Y7DDW TIL Las Vegas casino owner Benny Binion was a suspect in the 1972 car bombing murder of attorney and ex-FBI agent Bill Coulthard, with the murder allegedly motivated by a dispute over renewing the lease for the Horseshoe Casino in downtown Vegas.
ZpyyY TIL that if you were able to fold a sheet of paper in half, over and over, after 103 folds that piece of paper would larger than the whole observable universe.
4Xj4J Today I learned (by being destroyed by allergies) that your nose has an internal cycle, which is why one nostril can be harder to blow than the other.
Won9 TIL Pasty white skin was considered more attractive until the 1920’s when Coco Chanel accidentally got a sunburn while on vacation and people started to emulate her.
rNMww TIL Europe's 2003 heat wave killed 70,000+ people. In France, 15,000 died as morgues overflowed — forcing authorities to store bodies in refrigerated trucks