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TIL Ashkenazi Jews are genetically closer to Germans than to modern Palestinians.

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grOBW TIL In the 1950s, U.S. poultry firms dumped turkey tails into Samoa markets. Filled with oil used to preen itself, turkey tails are 75% fat and are frequently washed down with a cold Budweiser. Due to its ties to the obesity epidemic, Samoan officials banned turkey tail imports in 2007.
v1xjR TIL that rodents can't throw up
1ge7 TIL that in the movie ‘The Grey’, during the filming of an emotional scene in which Liam Neeson’s character pens a letter to his faraway wife, director Joe Carnahan urged Neeson to write the letter to his deceased wife, actress Natasha Richardson.
p85XQ TIL despite ancient Rome being one of the most powerful empires and using many modern financial techniques some of which are still being used today, Rome was a mainly agrarian economy with arelatively small GDP
6pEm TIL in 1990, a 15 year old girl testified before Congress, describing how Iraqi soldiers killed babies in a Kuwaiti hospital. This helped stir US favor for the Gulf War. The girl was later found to be the daughter of a Kuwaiti ambassador, and her story fabricated by American PR firm Hill & Knowlton