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TIL Lenin spoke at Laura (daughter of Karl) Marx’s funeral

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VBAl8 TIL Swedish mass-immigration to the USA began in the mid-1840s and peaked in 1887 with over 46,000 registered emigrants that year. Out of the 1.3 million Swedes who emigrated to the US, approximately one-fifth returned to their homeland
LkbJV TIL: The unrefrigerated milk they buy in Europe has a shelf life of up to SIX MONTHS when unopened, compared to just 7-10 days in the US and Canada thanks to different pasteurization methods.
07ev TIL that Brazzers’s founder is an Arab, and that the name Brazzers itself is derived from how an Arab would pronounce “Brothers.”
9wY9M TIL that the Yam postal system of the Mongol Empire covered 190 miles in a day, and was faster than the Pony Express used 600 years later
womjo TIL that barbers in the medieval times used to perform surgery and tooth extractions in addition to cutting hair, which is why barber’s poles are red, white, and blue.