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TIL According to the Torah, Jews are supposed to kill any Amalekite they meet. There are no people from Amalek today.

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YpwoZ TIL about Europe's southernmost glacier. It is located in cave Eptastomo at Parnassos mountain, Greece. At altitude of 1300m the temperature inside the cave never goes above 0°C. Its name means seven orifices and it is only accesible through rapel ropes.
BgREy TIL that long formal movies had to come in two-parts and people back then would have to swap part1 out with part2 to finish watching a movie!
yVGLw TIL that when Andre the giant passed away there was no crematorium large enough in France so his body had to be flown to America
R5ll6 TIL that the term "Honey Moon" comes from drinking fermented honey for a lunar cycle to improve fertility after getting married. It should have been called "Mead and Breed".
R5dm6 TIL John Lennon's song "Imagine" was played at Rosalynn Carter's funeral by Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood in church. Even though lyrics say “imagine there’s no heaven”, Jimmy Carter was touched by it and said through his work in 125 countries, the song was used almost equally with national anthems