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TIL that there are more people of Lebanese descent in Brazil than there are in Lebanon itself.

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jAdv TIL that companies in America will outsource call center duties to prisons. The prisoners make $0.92 per hour to handle calls.
vbwD TIL that when the number 40 appears in the Bible, it doesn’t literally mean 40, but rather it just means “a lot”
69oD8 TIL the largest single celled organism can grow up to TWO inches
4X8no TIL that in Oklahoma in the 1920s, ranchers, lawyers and public officials conspired together to murder 60+ Osage Indians in order to secure the rights to their oil-rich land. Only two men were ever convicted. Both were paroled and one pardoned by the governor of Oklahoma.
VM1P4 TIL that Japanese socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated in 1960 with a katana on live television.