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TIL The Black Death originated in Central or East Asia and spread to Europe via Italy.

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jVpj TIL The American Red Cross spends 90.7% of its budget on Program Expenses (ie. the reason the charity exists) while others, like Shiloh International Ministries, spend as little as 3.8%.
QPJ6 TIL that Saudi Arabia, which gave us 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers, will soon get the coveted “trusted traveler” status from the Department of Homeland Security.
ANDml TIL Achille Devéria, who was famous for painting artists and intellectuals such as Dumas, Walter Scott, Balzac, Victor Hugo, and Franz Liszt, also did a series of pornographic lithographs. Devéria's works were described as showing, "all the morals and aesthetics of the age"
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