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TIL that despite only making up .02% of the worlds population, Jews have won 22% of Nobel Prizes.

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lonwK TIL Dolly Parton gave each family who lost its primary residence in the 2016 TN fires $1,000 a month for five months. When she arrived to help dole out the final payments, she brought the nearly 900 families an unexpected bonus – another $5,000 each for a total of $10,000.
NgRE TIL that in 1956 the US government placed beer near a nuclear explosion to see whether it would still be drinkable after a nuclear fallout, it was.
pOZp TIL after opening of the New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, a rumor came about that the Bridge was unstable and was going to collapse. To prove it was safe, P.T. Barnum led 21 elephants across it on May 17, 1884.
rwe0 TIL women in New Zealand gained the right to vote in 1893, the first independent country to do so in modern times.
KY80a TIL Digimon’s equivalent to Legendary Pokémon is Deva Digimon