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TIL that foie gras was originally widely known as a Jewish food and is thought by some to have been brought to Europe by Judeans

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yVl8J TIL both Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942) and Adolf Hitler (1938) have won Time Person of the Year.
JYylV TIL A Halligan bar is a forcible entry tool used by firefighters and law enforcement. The Halligan has become the most versatile hand tool to be used for a multitude of fireground tasks. Based on the earlier Kelly tool, the Halligan is a multipurpose tool for prying, twisting, punching, or striking.
R7kNQ TIL of Naoto Matsumura, the "guardian of Fukushima’s animals." He is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s radioactive exclusion zone and cares for all the animals left behind. He refuses to worry that radiation levels will kill him, saying "I'll probably be dead by then anyway."
PYeQG TIL 14 year old Nathan Zohner got 43 out of 50 of his classmates to vote on banning Dihydrogen Monoxide for his science fair project, wanting to prove the use of true facts can lead the ignorant public to false conclusions. He won first price.
eKYn TIL that Mark Wahlberg had a cocaine addiction by age 13, and was convicted of attempted murder at 16 after beating a Vietnamese man with a stick and blinding him.