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TIL in 1988, King Hussein of Jordan arbitrarily and without notice revoked the citizenship of tens of thousands of Arabs living in the West Bank, in violation of international and Jordanian law

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9YddQ TIL The two parts to the word “helicopter” are not “heli” and “copter”, but “helico” meaning spiral, and “pter” meaning one with wings, like pterodactyl.
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