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TIL when the UK withdraws from Afghanistan later this year it will be the first time the country has not been at war for a hundred years

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e0lQk TIL Sarah Jessica Parker, who played a witch convicted in the Salem witch trials in the Disney movie “Hocus Pocus”, later discovered that one of her ancestors was a real woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
W10N TIL in 2005 the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” and it was made of smoked reindeer.
a8VRy TIL The dueling pistols used by Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton are owned by J.P. Morgan Chase.
Q8EL TIL that Hypatia, the first well known woman mathematician, was murdered by a mob of Christians who ripped off her skin with sharp tiles and seashells.
QJkmX TIL Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.