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TIL about Operation Meetinghouse, the deadliest bombing raid in history. On March 10, 1945, U.S. bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, resulting in the deaths of over 100,000 people and the destruction of 267,171 buildings. This raid was even more destructive than the atomic bombing

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oR9ME TIL Jews began arriving to Jamaica in the 1490s. By the 1700s they formed 18% of the capital's population and worshipped openly at both Sephardic and Ashkenazi synagogues. In the 1830s, they became full citizens of the nation - before many Jewish communities in Europe...
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