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TIL The German word for "panic buying" is "Hamsterkauf."
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TIL that the UK changed it’s child labour laws to allow the filming of Harry Potter
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TIL the US Veteran’s Administration was given 387 acres in 1887 to create permanent housing for disabled veterans. The VA hasn’t allowed any new residents since the 1970’s, and leases the land for profit instead of building housing.
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TIL Israel and the United States withdrew membership from UNESCO in 2018, claiming that the organization had an anti-Israel bias.
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TIL the Soviets had their own spin on the Western genre of film called Osterns (Easterns). Instead of being set in the American frontier they were set in the Soviet union during the Russian Civil War
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TIL the blast of air you feel when walking into a store is to prevent insects from flying in.