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TIL while native citizens of the small European principality of Monaco cannot gamble in their own physical casinos, they can legally gamble on online ones

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OoZje TIL Kurds are the Closest Relatives of Jews "In 2001, a team of Israeli, German, and Indian scientists discovered that the majority of Jews around the world are closely related to the Kurdish people – more closely than they are to the Semitic-speaking Arabs or any other population that was tested."
4b9J TIL The Clever Hans effect is where a trained animal appears to be performing intellectual tasks, but is in actuality responding to involuntary cues in the body language of human trainers. The effect is named after a horse which was claimed to be able to perform arithmetic.
JYVXV TIL that the word “rays” has the most homonyms, being one of seven words pronounced the same but spelled differently
N7XxE TIL that in 1518 a group of people actually danced until they died. One of the only known cases of "dancing mania"
awo8b TIL DHL delivers in North Korea