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TIL: Norteño Mexican music is highly influenced by polka music
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TIL “Reddit” is Latin for “Gives Back”
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TIL the British East India Company arrested hundreds of local weavers and had their thumbs chopped off in order to destroy Begal’s weaving industry in 1834.
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TIL Cuba has offered to pay off a $270 million debt to the Czech Republic in rum. The rum would be enough to last the country for 130 years.
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TIL that we have been warned that Iran will have obtained a nuclear bomb “within years” since 1984.
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TIL Operation Rimon 20, on July 30, 1970, the Israel Air Force (IAF) drew the Soviet expeditionary force in Egypt into a perfectly planned and executed ambush, shooting down five MiG-21 fighters with no losses for the Israeli Mirage-IIIs and Phantom F-4s.