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TIL before WWII 20% of the entire Jewish global population lived in Poland.

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KYpE9 TIL the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog puppet was found in an assortment of animal puppets at a country furniture store by Robert Smigel and his wife. Smigel immediately used it to jokingly smell his wife's butt, so she bought seven of those puppets and later gave them to Smigel as a birthday gift
gney TIL the US Coast Guard trains pigeons to spot lifejackets, and they’re 92% accurate.
7rVDp TIL about Carlos Kaiser, The greatest striker who never scored a goal in 25-year career. He was a conman who tricked football clubs into signing him, but always faked injuries to avoid playing and getting caught.
EgDo0 TIL lemons all have exactly 10 sections inside them
VB7dp TIL the $327.6 million Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 due to a unit conversion error. NASA's team used metric units, while Lockheed Martin used Imperial units for calculations, causing the spacecraft to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up.