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TIL 70% of the spices used in the world come from one country. India.

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4XYXg TIL that Oskar Schindler abandoned his wife after going bankrupt and returned to Germany, leaving her in Argentina. They never saw each other again in the 20 years before his death, though they remained married. The final scene of Schindler's List was her first time ever seeing his grave.
JO01 TIL Texas has its own dialect of German, and it’s close to extinction
1ldW TIL that close to 1800 studies have been conducted over the last 20 years to see the effects of public opinion on policies. The study showed that American public opinion has 0 to negligible effect on policies. But corporate donor effect had a direct correlation to policies.
DQdrV TIL Nero the fifth emperor of Rome, kicked his pregnant wife, Poppaea Sabina, to death. He then found a lookalike of her, a young boy, castrated him and tried to make him his wife.
Xkdr TIL that in the midst of the Vietnam war the dead body of Ho Chi Minh was secretly transported to a jungle cave, where it was embalmed by Soviet experts.