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TIL that people steal rocks from Hawaii only to mail them back decades later so as to not perhaps or maybe become cursed by the volcano God Pele.

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N7MMb TIL about Werner Goldberg, a blond-haired blue-eyed German soldier who was used in Nazi propoganda and recruiting as the "ideal German Soldier". He was later dismissed as he was part Jewish.
xPQB TIL During WW2 a Polish woman risked her life to conceal a Jewish man and his wife because the man once let her take some goods from his shop when she didn’t have enough money to pay him.
QBEL TIL In 1985, Burger King launched a viral ad campaign featuring ‘Herb the Nerd’, a mysterious man who had never eaten a Whopper in his life. People could get a 99 cent Whopper by saying “I’m Not Herb”, or if their name was Herb, “I’m not the Herb you’re looking for.”
KnYJ TIL that Pope Francis has never used the internet, despite having nine different twitter accounts and more than 20 million followers
M7rAB TIL about Sophia-the first robot to receive legal citizenship of a country. She was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship in 2017.