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TIL: Thomas Jefferson studied the Koran and argued that Muslims (as well as Catholics and Jews) should have equal rights in America

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awBjy TIL That the film "The Killing Fields" cast a real life survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. Hang S. Ngor survived three terms in Cambodian Prison camp by eating insects. He went on to win an Academy Award for supporting actor. His fate ended by being murdered my an LA street gang in 1996.
d8vGj TIL: The Cheka, the soviet secret police would skin people alive, have people tied to planks and then pushed slowly into furnaces or tanks of boiling water, children as young as 8 would be executed.
EgnJ0 TIL the average Swiss resident takes the train about 70 times per year, more than any other European country
bVvZ TIL studies suggest that people who swear often, stay up late, and are messy, tend to have high IQ’s
dDeXQ TIL: There used to be a three-cent piece called the "trime."