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TIL that the Azerbaijani village of Qırmızı Qəsəbə is the world's only all-Jewish town outside Israel and the USA, and is considered to be the world's last surviving shtetl. Alongside Azerbaijani and Russian, residents also speak Judeo-Tat, the traditional language of the Mountain Jews

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yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
4QK6 TIL the voice of Patrick Star, Bill Fagerbakke, of Spongebob fame is a 6’ 6" three-sport athlete from high school, a star defensive lineman from college, and was acclaimed by the Juilliard School of Performing Arts as an excellent Shakespearean actor.
Z8L0v TIL that former NBA player Steve Nash was an accomplished chess player at a young age but quit in the fourth grade after making an opponent cry
1aB4P TIL of the Somerton Man Mystery, a case in which a man was found dead on an Australian beach, with a piece of paper that lead to a book with indentations of a ciphered text. Cause of death unknown, and despite international assistance, he was never identified.
X0Z6Q TIL that in Chile there is a real town named "Peor es Nada" which translates to “Better than nothing” because the owner saw the place as a "dump" and exclaimed that it's better than nothing.