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TIL there are two Jews left in Afghanistan, they both hate one another and therefore each have their own private synagogue.

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WyLX TIL that today, 69 per cent of children aged two to five can use a computer mouse, but only 11 per cent can tie their own shoelaces; and more young people know how to play a computer game (58 per cent) than swim (20 per cent) or ride a bike (52 per cent).
lomEB TIL Stalin loved Charlie Chaplin movies, and even cried at the last scene of City Lights, but he banned The Great Dictator from screening in the USSR. Stalin apparently was afraid that the image of the dictator Adenoid Hynkel would bring up an unwanted comparison – not to Hitler, but to himself.
5VQRD TIL six percent of humans go out of their way to hit animals on the road and 89% of the people who did swerve to kill drove SUVs
nWm6G TIL it’s legal to eat Guinea Pig in the United States. It falls under the same exotic meats category as rabbit, bison, and venison.
oBEr8 TIL sweden nationalized their banks after their subprime recession.