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TIL after WW2, a Jewish assassin group nicknamed “nokmim” sought out those who terrorized jews and/or their families during the war and meticulously executed them.

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VMeA0 TIL the most remote settlement on Earth is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, located on the island Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The settlement nearest to it is on Saint Helena, 1350 miles away.
OGGdR TIL that Marlon Brando horrified a Superman The Movie producer in their first meeting by proposing that Jor-El appear as a green suitcase or a bagel with Brando's voice, but director Richard Donner used flattery to persuade the actor to portray Jor-El himself.
oGDo TIL it is illegal to burn the flag of any country in Denmark, with the exception of the Danish flag itself.
LQjK9 TIL that in the 1920s, you could order glass burial caskets from a catalog, for adults or children.
aw84y Not really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy, which in ancient Ayurvedic practice meant imbibing urine in the morning, mid stream; Proverbs 5:15 is thought to be in support of the act ("Drink waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own well"); and J.D. Salinger famously sipped his own, as did the former prime minister of India, Morarji Desai, who even appeared on 60 Minutes to defend his habit.Click here to launch a gallery about urine therapy.