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TIL that God killed a man because he refused to impregnate his dead brother's wife.

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dDJw9 TIL of Hanns Scharff, a WWII German interrogator who never used torture, later moved to the US and designed the mosaic inside Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World.
OoQxe TIL about corriearklet, the word describing the moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven’t, to avoid the embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
NXrEe TIL in 1938 a Florida tour boat operator released a colony of rhesus monkeys in a state park to attract tourists. They now number over 200 and have been labeled a public health hazard by the CDC.
9wEj6 TIL that the term "Silk Road" was originally coined by the Red Baron’s uncle
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