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TIL that at least 12% of Americans think Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife, from the Bible.

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GYJEj TIL a Scottish teen's mother had been nagging him for weeks to clean his bedroom. When Ryan Kitching finally cleaned his room, he found 12 old lottery tickets in a drawer; one of them was a winner for £52,981.
Qjea TIL of Professional Mourners. In ancient Rome, these paid sad people would rip out their hair and scratch at their faces. Having many of them signified great wealth, and the Roman government eventually had to impose limitations on how many the deceased person could have.
JYKkQ TIL according to a Kyoto University team, dogs can recognize a bad person & negatively evaluate people who refuse to help their owners.
p4Re TIL: Until it was torn down in 1992, there was an Anarchic, lawless city in China, with 50,000 people living in the area of several city blocks.
MeoJK TIL that the Germans saw the signing of the treaty of Versailles as humiliating defeat. The treaty was signed in the Compiègne Wagon. When the French surrendered to the Germans in 1940, Hitler had the wagon taken out of a museum and placed in the same spot for signing the new armistice.