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TIL there's plastic in my blood. A lot of it.
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TIL that Kars 4 Kids actually uses the money they get to promote Orthodox Jewishness in Jewish children
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TIL Walt and Roy Disney made this film (in 1964) to help get financing to build a college called CalArts to be placed in Hollywood, California. Which later got built about an hour North in Valencia, California.
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TIL that the word “quisling”, or a person who collaborates with an enemy occupying force, is derived from a man named Vidkun Quisling, who headed a domestic Nazi collaborationist regime in Norway during the Second World War. His name is now synonymous with the word “traitor”.
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TIL Germany granted Vladimir Lenin safe passage back to Russia via armored train knowing of his plans to begin the revolution and remove Russia from World War 1. Lenin succeeded and Russia was no longer a threat to the Germans. This could be one of the best military decisions ever made.
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TIL that if the entire world’s population stood side by side in a giant square, with each person having 1 square meter of space to stand in, that (not so giant) square would only be 80km (50 miles) in length in each direction, and a Bugatti Veyron could drive around it in 50 minutes.