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TIL that the Mongols pulled their bowstrings back with their thumb. To prevent damage to their thumbs they created thumb rings.

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OpB6 TIL that having a relative “removed” defines their generation gap relative to you. So your mother’s first cousin is your first cousin, once removed.
WABY TIL that in Russia it is illegal to suggest that the USSR and Nazi Germany partitioned Poland in 1939
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OKbe TIL that nannies would masturbate their children to put them to sleep up until the seventeenth century.