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TIL that there are thousands of Palestinians serving in the Israeli Armed Forces

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ljGa TIL The word for a black man in the Irish language literally means “blue man” because the term for black man was used to refer to the devil.
0BnR TIL Concorde pilots chased a solar eclipse at Mach 2. They extended it from 7 minutes to 74.
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