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TIL during WWII the Dominican Republic took in 100,000 Jewish people fleeing Europe

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MeYda TIL Leonardo Da Vinci is credited as being first to correctly explain Earthshine
59r8 TIL that the name “Pakistan” was devised in 1933 as the acronym for: Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sindh, and BalochiSTAN. Also, in Farsi and Urdu, “Pak” means “clean” and “-stan” means country
graVW TIL The Wiggles we’re the highest earning band in Australia in 2013, beating out both Keith Urban and AC/DC.
armJ TIL in 2009 the Australian Government gave almost everyone $1,000 cash as an economic stimulus.
vMYD TIL that, in 1955, someone dropped a 600+ year-old plaster statue of Buddha, only to discover after some of the plaster chipped off, that the statue was actually solid gold.