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TIL An Ottoman Sultan sent his navy to rescue Jews expelled from Spain in 1492

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GXwN TIL IMDb is one of the oldest websites on the internet, and began on Usenet in 1990 as a list of “actresses with beautiful eyes”
rmY1 TIL that Sweden and Denmark have fought more wars between them than any other two nations, even beating out France and England.
E11kp TIL 84% of American vegetarians and vegans, abandon their diet, returning back to meat in under a year.
5YrGk TIL Honeybees can be trained to locate landmines due to their acute sense of smell. Croatian scientists mixed a sugar solution with a small amount of TNT — and after about five minutes of hunting for this doped sugar solution, the honeybees are trained to flock to the smell of TNT.
E1meV TIL Former president Jimmy Carter is a 3x Grammy Winner and 9x Grammy Nominee. He is also the 3rd oldest person to ever win a Grammy