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TIL…that Ethiopian Jews really are decendants of ancient Jews genetically and not converts…

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BrmkL TIL Ke-alelo-O-Pilikua is a lava formation near the mouth of Lumaha'i River in Kauai, Hawaii and means “tongue of Pilikua." Pilikua comes from the name of a giant who was known for his booming voice. Legend says the people who heard him repeatedly became so irritated with him that they killed him
wLvwE TIL In 1999, Yeltsin signed a union treaty with Russia and Belarus. The agreement commits the two former Soviet states to merging into a confederal state
Ej17 TIL the word ‘nice’ used to mean 'stupid’.
a86M TIL there was a harbor seal capable of imitating basic human speech, mimicking his owner’s most uttered phrase: “Hey, get outta here!”
XE4n8 TIL in 1936, Orson Welles directed an entirely African American cast in a production of Macbeth set in the Caribbean, nicknamed Voodoo Macbeth, where Haitian vodou took the place of Scottish witchcraft