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TIL It is considered a sin for one to try to convert another to Judaism. One must desire conversion to Judaism for its own sake, and for no other motives.

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pY6WG TIL in 1965 part of the training to be Special Forces Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab at Fort Bragg where they had to shoot a Dog (The Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then successfully treat the wound
KY1Q TIL that Greco-Roman wrestling was invented by a french soldier, and named Greco-Roman to make people think it was the sport practiced in the classic civilizations.
KjyR TIL that the smallest living bird is nary larger than a bee and weighs less than a single US penny
wYmP TIL 23yo Rachel Hoffman was caught with marijuana during a traffic stop. Police pressured her into becoming an informant for lesser charges. Wearing a wire she was told to buy drugs and a gun. The police lost track of her and she was robbed and executed. Her body wasn’t found until two days later
M5Za TIL in 2012 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation decided that an episode of the animated children’s series Peppa Pig was inappropriate for an Australian audience because it said that spiders were not to be feared.