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TIL of the city of Salonica in modern day Greece was for centuries one of the only Jewish majority cities but during Nazi occupation 90% of the Jewish residents were murdered and their cultural artifacts plundered, houses stolen, and the cemetery dug up and the headstones used as building material.

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Z84RY TIL An Inmate sued Himself for $5 Million dollars for commiting a crime that went against his religious beliefs -- He demanded the state pay the damages because he had no money himself
wLoZo The numbers tell the story: Of the 648 people killed by lightning in the U.S. from 1995 to 2008, 82 percent were male. And as much as we were hoping to uncover a biological cause—extra iron in the male cranium, perhaps, or the conductive properties of testosterone—it turns out men are... just kind of stupid. “Men take more risks in lightning storms,” says John Jensenius, a lightning safety expert with the National Weather Service.
QJAdk TIL that after the photo titled Face To Face was made the man featured in it named Patrick Cloutier was praised as a hero and was promoted.What ensued was him being demoted and charged for Cocaine use ,a drunk driving accident, and starring in a porn parody of the Oka crisis.
oRr78 TIL - theres a rare phenomenon called "ball lightning," which is a highly unusual and misunderstood form of lightning. Ball lightning is characterized by the appearance of a luminous, spherical object that floats in the air for several seconds or even minutes. It's typically the size of a grapfruit
Xn0r TIL Napoleon was sexually obsessed with his mistress Josephine, encouraging her not to bathe for days to retain her own scent, and that she had a signature sex move he called the “zigzag.”