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TIL that before there was the Silk Road, the Maritime Jade Road was established in Asia in the second century BCE starting from Taiwan travelling southwest to the Philippines and reaching all the way to Arabia

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Qd89 TIL “Christopher Columbus, in an effort to induce the natives of Jamaica to continue provisioning him and his hungry men, successfully intimidated the natives by correctly predicting a lunar eclipse”
do1B TIL: In Norway Easter is known for “Påskekrim” (Easter Crime), when just about everyone in Norway reads crime novels, television and radio stations run crime serials, and newspapers publish special crime related literary supplements.
b6x8E TIL of Juliana the Great Dane, who saved her family's lives twice and earned two Blue Cross Medals. First by urinating on an incendiary bomb that landed in the family's home during WW2, and the second by alerting the family when their shoe shop had caught fire
JYZkv TIL - Disney auditioned cars for the role of Herbie in the 1968 Love Bug film. Disney set up a casting call for cars, including Toyotas, a TVR, Volvos, an MG and a pearl white Volkswagen Beetle. The Beetle was chosen as it was the only one that elicited the crew to reach out and pet it.
4j4R TIL that some orthodox Jewish communities have volunteer ambulance services which survive solely on donations. They don’t bill the patient for transporting them to the hospital, have a faster response time than most ambulance companies, and don’t exclusively service Jews.