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TIL That 7 of the top 10 richest congress members are democrats.

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loA4G TIL that according to one jewish legend,shedims(Jewish demons,not necessarily evil) were born because god originally wanted to make some humans but the sabbath came and he could not do any more work and just treated the project as complete.
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