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TIL that there was a real team of Jewish assassins who hunted down Nazi war criminals to avenge the Holocaust.

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R5va9 TIL the Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
aLNy TIL that a 6-minute, fan-made Batman movie exists where Batman fights Predator, Alien, and the Joker. It premiered at Comic Con in 2003 and Kevin Smith called it “possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made.”
wxXo TIL the Tesla Model S is so safe, it broke the safety testing equipment.
ZwY4 TIL that the word bonfire means ‘bonefire’. Old bones were used as fuel into the 19th century.
d8BmK TIL about exploding head syndrome, an event in which a person hallucinates a short and extremely loud noise as they are falling asleep. Despite the name, the syndrome isn’t associated to any dangerous condition.