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TIL that in Russia, Jews were believed to have a a secret vegetable they eat so they don’t become alcoholics. Anti-semitism was justified because they refused to share their magic vegetable

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4X4Qa TIL that Frank Goldsmith, Jr., a Titanic survivor who later lived near Navin Field (Tiger Stadium) in Detroit, never took his children to baseball games because the roar of the crowd reminded him of the screams of people dying in the freezing water.
6Yk8 TIL the actor who played the farmer in the movie Babe decided to go vegan after working closely with the “extraordinary animals” in the film.
JYla1 TIL about the Carthusian Martyrs. These men refused to accept Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church in England and were brutally killed because of it. The English authorities under Thomas Cromwell killed and harrassed the Carthusians until they were finally able to loot their monastery.
NXemQ TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended the hanging of abolitionist leader John Brown. Booth stood near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.
LQBoV TIL That Red Granite Pictures the production company behind “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Daddy’s Home” reached a 60 million dollar settlement with the US government over a 4.5 billion Malaysian government corruption case