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TIL Henry Kissinger is 100 years old

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R7Kj9 TIL that the words to the Algerian National Anthem were written by the activist Zakaria with his own blood after being tortured by the French colonialists in prison
KG1E TIL Japan has a lifetime employment system where large companies hire regular employees right out of school and keep them until retirement and new employees are chosen for their general potential, not because of any special skills or training.
BOEL TIL in a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
loRD7 TIL Cats have genetic similarities to humans and are an excellent model to study human infectious diseases.
1xrO TIL Pope Alexander VI ordered the destruction of all art depicting a Semitic Jesus and commissioned a number of paintings depicting a Caucasian Jesus. His son, Cesare Borgia, was the model for these paintings. Thus, the nastiest of all the Borgias, became the iconic Caucasian Jesus.