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TIL There's a family where every member has 12 fingers

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JZ98 TIL that in 1796, some of the first “attack ads” in US election history were published and included a warning that Thomas Jefferson would emancipate all slaves if elected
nWEA7 TIL that the Abu Simbel temples are so far south of Egypt that they are only 20 kilometers from the border with Sudan
MevJA TIL that the population of the Inishkea Islands (in Ireland) was until recently unaware of Christianity and the English language, worshipping a magical stone regularly “re-clothed” by a priestess. A catholic priest cast the stone into the sea in the 1890s, then a storm left the islands abandoned.
9YkDM TIL McDonald’s burgers were not big enough to satisfy Jamaicans, which led to the failure and closure of all McDonald’s locations in Jamaica.
X01JR TIL that it can take up to a week to scan a 90 minute film negative in 4K resolution.