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TIL that emergency fuel shipments to Siberian cities cost Russia an estimated $500 million per year - and according to economists, it would be cheaper for Russia to fly labourers into Siberia to extract the natural resources and then fly them out again, instead of keeping Siberian cities functioning

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5VV6P TIL that in the Talmud, regarding to the question of the method of verifying if a previously perforated penis is healed, a Rabbi presents the solution of making someone cum from the heat of warm barley bread placed in the anus, to see if the cum does not go out from the perforation.
nb8r TIL that Häagen-Dazs’s brand name is completely nonsensical, but is meant to sound vaguely Danish: the creator “sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked. The reason he chose this method was so that the name would be unique and original”
e0NV6 TIL only 19 states including D.C. in the U.S. have universal motorcycle helmet laws that require all riders to wear helmets. Illinois and Iowa have no state law on the books while all other states anyone over the age of 17 to 20 depending on the state is not required to wear a helmet while riding.
kOp0g TIL that the last German Kaiser, Wilhelm II (born 1859), lived to see the rise of Hitler and the first two years of WW2, dying in 1941. When Hitler took Paris, he wrote a telegram, writing "Congratulations, you have won using my troops."
D14Ge TIL that in the wine industry, adding water to wine to dilute it and create more product for sale is known as "adding Jesus units", in reference to Jesus creating wine from water.