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TIL that Jamaica is the most homophobic place on earth

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7r1vr TIL That Kyrie Eleison means "Lord have mercy" in Greek. It is an expression found several times in the Bible and in is found many Christian hymns including a # 1 hit by Mister, Mister in 1986.
8KoP TIL that in Israel there is something called the “Jewish Internet Defense Force”, a government run propagandist movement that hires Israeli students, puts them in front of a computer googling to find anything that criticises Israel and had them try to remove it or claim it is a lie…
QNnyp TIL that clocks in the first railway stations had 3 hands, showing London time and 'local' time.
BrZ8L TIL that astronauts lose as much as 22% of their blood while in space, as a reaction to the uniform blood pressure caused by microgravity. Until their body replaces this blood, many returning astronauts can't stand for more than a few minutes without fainting.
oRkeK TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; was blinded in his left eye; survived two plane crash and tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp.