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TIL some Jews payed $100K for red cows to summon their Messiah in 2024

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D8ZP TIL the super-rich can watch theatrically-released movies at home via a $35,000 streaming box for $500 each (if you own a 100+ inch screen and pass a background check first)
J1Pa4 TIL that Nepal has a festival devoted entirely to celebrating dogs!
WPK9 TIL in the 13th century, Genghis Khan proposed “friendship and peace” with the fellow nomadic Khwarezmian Empire in Persia. The Khwarezmia shah ordered a Mongol trade delegation killed, prompting Khan to invade the empire, kill 1.25 million, and destroy the Khwarezmian Empire.
5VYeP TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”
VMenm TIL in 1994, the then 17-year-old David Hahn made a nuclear reactor from batteries, old clocks, lanterns, uranium from Czechoslovakia and duct tape in a shed next to his mother’s house.