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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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p80be TIL about Placobdelloides jaegerskioeldi; a leech known as the Hippo Butt Leech who spends its life attached to the rectums of hippos
EjBw TIL that Barbie and Ken broke up in 2004. Barbie hooked up with a guy named Blaine for a couple of years, then got back with Ken in 2006.
rRWXM TIL that Reese's peanut butter cups were also originally called "penny cups" since they cost just one cent each when Harry Burnett Reese first started selling them in 1928. The penny cups were so successful that Reese was able to sell them in 5-pound boxes to local retailers.
LkdR9 TIL Victor Klemperer, Jewish KZ inmate and post-WWII professor of German literature, wrote a book that analyzed how Nazis introduced a nearly Orwellian kind of German language. Examples are: "crisis" for defeat, "connection" (Anschluss) for annexation, and "enhanced interrogation" for torture.
8a9pb TIL that the Royal Navy once saved 5 million pounds in training by having personnel shout "bang" instead of firing live rounds