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TIL That North America uses a different paper standard than the rest of the world

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JMB8 TIL 3 of Adolf Hitler’s cousins live quietly in Long Island New York. None of them have children and it is rumored that they refuse to have children so the family line with die with them.
GAEbg TIL that slavery isn’t taught in school & 93% if high schoolers can’t name slavery as the main cause of the Civil War.
xVbok TIL of "The Human Library" : A project that allows you to go to a library and borrow/check out real people who have been through hard times and listen to their stories.
OoeRa TIL that some countries are measuring the happiness of their people instead of economic success as a measure of how well the country is doing.
yVlg8 TIL State-sponsored cannibalism was common during Safavid Persia as a show of loyalty or to terrorize enemies. Ismail I ordered several of his enemies eaten. By the time of Shah Abbas I, there was a corp of soldiers called the Chigiyyin whose job was to eat prisoners raw and alive until they died.