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TIL there is Jewish Internet Defense Force or JIDF. They infiltrate Facebook and other social media sites to promote Israel and fight against anyone who criticizes it.

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8aYMV TIL Benjamin Franklin invented anti-wound pads that would later become disposable menstrual pads
9L6Q TIL that the Bangkok police used Hello Kitty armbands to shame officers for minor offenses
KYKdJ TIL Jingle Bells is actually a thanksgiving song!
ADXon TIL that songwriter Esther Dean composed “S&M” for Rihanna, then was later cast as Cynthia Rose in the Pitch Perfect movies. This means in the “riff-off” scene in the first movie, Esther got to sing her own song, but as a completely different person. Full circle.
OomAL TIL the Talmud instructs that no boy should have foreskin removed if two brothers had died from complications of the procedure. By the 12th century, this was said to be based on maternal descent. Rabbinic texts likely offer the earliest recorded evidence for hemophilia, the genetic blood disorder.