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

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DQNAV TIL that Kim Walker, who played Heather Chandler in the 1989 film Heathers in which she famously asked “Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast?” died of a brain tumor in 2001.
ZMdG TIL there is a website that counts the amount of days since the last homophobe was caught in a gay sex scandal. Current score: 11 days.
PWre TIL that a 1984 study showed that hospital patients assigned to rooms with windows looking out onto scenes of nature had shorter recovery times, were better behaved and required fewer painkillers than patients assigned to rooms with windows facing brick walls.
gr1b9 TIL 4 US Presidents were male cheerleaders.
Y790r TIL that "Liquid Ass" so realistically mimics the human colon that it's used by the US Military to train combat medics