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TIL that there are less than 20 Jewish people living in Egypt.
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TIL that in 1807 the British Navy put together the West Africa Squadron. Slaver hunters that chased down any slaver ships they could find crossing the Atlantic, and fining them up to £100 per slave on board. Slavers would often throw slaves overboard to avoid paying.
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TIL that a crayon molder named Emerson Moser worked at Crayola for 45 years and on his last day he revealed that he was color blind
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TIL that only two women have ever attempted to assassinate a US President, and both attempts were made on Gerald R. Ford within 3 weeks of each other.
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TIL the total cost of the Challenger Space Shuttle recovery by the Navy ($13.1 million) was equal to the street value of a duffle bag of cocaine found during the search
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TIL that the reason why tattoos don’t fade away as skin cells die is that your immune system sends macrophages to eat up the ink. As they die, the ink gets eaten by new macrophages in a never ending cycle