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TIL statues of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow are still on cathedrals all over Germany

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WnG9 TIL the oldest alliance in the world that is still in force is between UK and portugal and date back to 1373
78867 TIL Dr Seuss's original Lorax drawings are found in Austin, at the presidential library of Lyndon B Johnson. Johnson and his wife were environmentalists and he called Seuss personally to thank him for donating the original artwork to the Johnson archive
OGjn4 TIL that the idea that objects falling speed is proportional to their weight was refuted a thousand years before Galileo
7rekp TIL the first weight-loss surgery was to the king of Leon, Spain during the 10th century. His morbid obesity made him lose the throne so his grandmother escorted him to Cordoba where a doctor sewed his lips shut, his food only coming from a straw. He lost half his weight and reclaimed the throne.
4X0Mg TIL that Africa's arbitrary borders, which make the continent look like a patchwork and are responsible for many ethnic conflicts up to this day, were "made" at the Berlin Conference (1885) by European leaders.