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TIL Jewish people were banned from England from 1290 to the 1650's

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9wKdm TIL in 2009 Burger King ran the "Whopper sacrifice" campaign, which gave a free whopper to anyone who deleted 10 friends on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was alerting people letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich.
4XB7o TIL of Senator William Proxmire, who was so active in opposing scientific/medical research that his name became a verb. To Proximire means to obstruct scientific research for political gain.
4XL4J TIL "Scottie" from Star Trek was Lieutenant James Doohan who was shot by machine-gun on D-Day. One bullet blew off his finger, 4 struck his leg and 1 hit him in the chest. A silver cigarette case stopped the bullet to the chest. He later joked it was the only time being a smoker saved his life
Z8M7R TIL that Hawaii wasn’t a state when Pearl Harbor was bombed in World War 2.
l7BEG TIL that using yellow and red cards in football to signal a penalty for a player is a fairly recent invention considering the sports age. The first time this system was implemented was at the FIFA World Cup in 1970 in Mexico. In Germany, 2 yellow = 1 red card, was also only implemented only in 1991!