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TIL that 70 percent of the world have never met a Jewish person.

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lGwB TIL that underneath the surface of Nefertiti’s bust is a sculpture of an older and more wrinkly Nefertiti
x6y90 TIL The Mercury astronaut candidate examinations involves sensory deprivation test of you being placed in a circular 8 foot deep tank of body temperature water without hallucinating. The normal reaction is for the subconscious mind to take over and one lapses into uncontrollable hallucinations
MeyrK TIL that in 1985 France bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship called the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand using secret agents under the codename "Opération Satanique"
PYYyL The burning question of the season
4Xbb5 TIL that’s the pilot of Gilligan’s Island was filmed on the day of JFK’s assassination. Even after hearing this news, they continued filming and when they shot the Minnow’s departure scene, all the flags were at halfmast