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TIL Over 80% of the South Bronx was burned or abandoned between 1970 and 1980

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pJEN TIL that anti-occupation Rabbis have actually volunteered to be human shields in order to defend Palestinian villages from destruction
GYo1g TIL they used boys as young as 4 to clean chimneys. Work was dangerous and they could get jammed in the flue, suffocate or burn to death.
x694o TIL that the celestial bodies or any objects in space we see in space are actually from the past due to how long it takes for light to travel back to Earth.
jNP5X TIL In Switzerland it's perfectly legal to download any movie or games you want on internet for a private usage. You can even share it with your friends.
7rBZZ TIL a woman's clitoris actually looks kinda like a space penguin when the whole thing is properly imaged, and that father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud hated it, calling it an "infantile organ." And also that Freud invented the vaginal orgasm, which apparently is not actually a thing.