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TIL that Azerbaijan destroyed medieval Armenian graves in what has been referred to as 'cultural genocide'

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4krMw TIL a town in India is addicted to chess after one man taught everyone how to play 50 years ago to eliminate excessive alcohol consumption and gambling, which has now all decreased to nearly nothing.
m0JP TIL Daniel Day-Lewis declined the role of Lincoln because he didn’t know if he could play such an iconic role. It was Leonardo DiCaprio who convinced him to take the role after Spielberg told him that Day-Lewis declined. It is unknown how DiCaprio convinced Day-Lewis to take the role.
nW0a7 TIL I learned how deaf people can listen to music using bone conduction headphones
7rJNP TIL: On May 24, 1626, Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan for the equivalent of $24 worth of beads and trinkets.
xDZk TIL that a 30 ft tall log - the “Old Man of the Lake” - has been bobbing vertically on its end in Oregon’s Crater Lake since at least 1896.