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

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78oAb TIL Origins of masturbation are traced to primates 40 million years ago
worWE TIL the alleged Goebbels quote "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." has been repeated in numerous books and articles and on thousands of web pages, yet there is no primary source for it.
D1Gkr TIL that a former presidential chief strategist and advisor, was at one time the CEO of the Biosphere 2 Experiment. The Biosphere 2 Project was the multi-year endeavor to see if humans could live in a closed environment for a long period of time.
7ryYb TIL that knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem was widespead in Old Babylonia(Iraq today) 1900 years BC, more than 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.
R5PD9 TIL Danny Boyle, director of 28 Days Later and Slumdog Millionaire, declined knighthood for directing London Olympic opening ceremony. Proclaming he is proud equel citizen and that's what ceremony was about.