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TIL In 1492, Sultan Bayezid II sent the Ottoman Navy to help evacuate Muslims and Jews during the Spanish Inquistion and “he threatened with death all those who treated the Jews harshly or refused them admission into the empire”

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wgnP TIL that early explorers described kangaroos as creatures that had heads like deer, stood upright like men, and hopped like frogs. No one believed them.
bZQ7 TIL that 1 in every 8 American workers have been employed by McDonalds.
JQEV TIL: Albert Göring, the younger brother of Nazi leader, Hermann Göring, was actively engaged in anti-Nazi activities, freed many Jews, and collaborated with the Czech resistance.
jDyX TIL of Castner’s Cutthroats, a platoon of Army scouts who served in the Aleutian Islands Campaign of WW2. The group was composed of trappers, hunters, miners and Native Alaskans. They seldom used ranks and never wore uniforms. In addition to recon missions, they fought in the bloody Battle of Attu.
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