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TIL that Qırmızı Qəsəbə, in Azerbaijan, is believed to be the only all Jewish town outside of Israel and the United States.

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ONwL TIL in 1914, British WW1 soldier Thomas Hughes throw a bottle with a letter to his wife into the English Channel. He was killed 2 days later. In 1999, a Fisherman found the bottle in the River Thames. Hughes wife had died in 1979 but the letter was delivered to the soldier’s 86 year old daughter
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