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TIL about the origins of the term "Anti-Semitism"

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rNpQd TIL of the Goler Clan - a group of poor, rural families living in Canada whose lineage showed incest dating back to the 1860s. In 1984, it was discovered that many Goler children experienced physical and sexual torture at the hands of mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, and cousins.
Y8vA TIL David Trang, the creator of “Sriracha” named his company “Huy Fong Foods” in honor of the ship that helped him escape Vietnam in 1978.
gM4bX TIL That evolution is faster in primates with larger testicles. A study of 55 species of primates found that there was a relationship between testicle size and genome mutation rates.
W7OnB TIL that 1 WTC is 1776 ft tall
ZVJQ TIL of Andrew Halliburton, a Scottish child prodigy with an IQ of 145, entered IT university at 16 only to drop out six months later and become a burger flipper at McDonald’s