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TIL China didn’t have fortune cookies until introduced 1993 and sold as “genuine American fortune cookies”

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YpMPG TIL The Show Tom and Jerry first aired in February of 1940 and won Seven Academy awards for Animation for its original run. Even though the original show ended in 1958, spin-offs of the beloved Cat and Mouse have continued through the present day.
D16Be TIL in 1381 over 70,000 peasants from across England revolted against their lords, led by a farmer named Wat Tyler the 'Peasant Army' marched into London, sacking parts of the city and killing any wealthy elites they found
a89lo TIL that “pee shivers” are due to a sudden drop in body temperature that occurs when we urinate. It’s the body trying to warm itself back up
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69X5X TIL about the Martyrs of Nowogródek, eleven Catholic nuns who sacrificed their lives to take the place of 120 Polish civilians condemned to die at the hands of Nazi Gestapo. Immediately after they prayed, the Gestapo suddenly released the civilians, & without warning, rounded up & executed the nuns.