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TIL Israel and the United States withdrew membership from UNESCO in 2018, claiming that the organization had an anti-Israel bias.

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OkDa TIL that OJ. Simpson’s Heisman trophy was melted down and made into small angel pins for people who donated money to battered women’s causes.
oBOwr TIL: Many jurisdictions use a "randomized alphabet", re-shuffled periodically, to determine the alphabetical order that candidates' names will appear on ballots, in order to prevent an unfair advantage for names starting with A.
YpWex TIL The most prolific narrator of hadiths (non Quranic stories and sermons of the Prophet) was known by the kunyah Abu Hurayrah "Father of a Kitten". Abu Hurayrah is a controversial figure as many of his 5374 hadiths lack witnesses to confirm them.
Lkx0Q TIL that the "boy [who] stood on the burning deck" was Giocante Casabianca - a brave little boy on on board the burning L'Orient, who refused to leave his post without his father's orders. He didn't know that his father was already dead.
kVve TIL there’s a fourth “wise monkey” Do No Evil that covers his nuts