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TIL the free market value of cocaine, worth $1,000 on the black market, is $20.

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a0MN TIL a woman named Irena Sendler worked as a plumber in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, and saved over 2,500 Jewish children, smuggling many of them out in her tool box. She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; and lost to Al Gore.
9Ybjp Today I learned that the Jews found refuge in China during the Second World War.
nWrRG TIL about the "hand of glory" made from the hand of a hanged man. Europeans once made candles from the fat of the corpse of a criminal and placed it in the hand of glory, believing it would render motionless all persons to whom it was presented
BrxLx TIL that because Iceland is a remote country with a population of 320,000 where most everyone is distantly related, Icelanders have a special dating app that warns them if a potential partner is too closely related
6En0m TIL Republicans and Democrats used to switch symbolic colors until the 2000 presidential election