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TIL Africa has an Interpol-like organization called Afripol
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TIL the most expensive dreidel was valued at $70,000. The custom-designed piece took four months to create constructed entirely of 18k gold, the smaller lettering is made with 18k white gold and has 222 modern round brilliant diamonds inlaid into the symbols.
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TIL Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the wife of the creator of Star Trek, played the nurse on then original series, played Deanna Troi’s mother on TNG, voiced all the computer on Star Trek, and her body is being launched into space in 2014.
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TIL Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia because Virginia’s only other college at the time, College of William & Mary, was too religious and did not have enough science courses.
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TIL studies show that acute exercise can increase sexual arousal in women.
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TIL of the North American X-15, a rocket plane from the 1950’s that achieved the manned airspeed record in 1967 when William J. “Pete” Knight flew it 4,520 miles per hour (7,274 km/h).