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1BRD TIL that a decree promulgated on November 12, 1787, by Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II ordered all Jews in the Hapsburg Empire to acquire family names.
wL46Y TIL that elephants typically eat 200-600 pounds of food per day. They also can drink up to 50 gallons of water each day.
d8lmj TIL 30/31 of the first popes were murdered & while most of them were martyred, not all causes of their deaths are known.
d8D8 TIL hemophilia is prominent in European royalty, because royal families engaged in copious amounts of incest, spreading the hemophilia gene
XEw4Q TIL Prior to allying with the Soviet Union, Fidel Castro was a political celebrity in the US, celebrated as a liberator and modern day Robin Hood.