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TIL the Torah has been reduplicated almost perfectly throughout history. Between all Jewish communities worldwide, only Yemen’s was found to be different. It had a total of 9 errors amidst 304,805 letters.

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0d4J5 TIL Nazi Germany ran a non-smoking ad; “He does not devour it, it devours him” (1941).
16VGX TIL about Yang Jingyu: a Chinese resistance leader who fought the Japanese during WWil. Yang was encircled & killed after 5 days of fighting alone in the wild. An autopsy found only bark and grass roots in his stomach. His desecrated body was later given a proper burial due to fear of his ghost.
J1L48 TIL the Earth's water is older than the sun
ne6gP TIL Maury was previously a news anchor in Chicago, LA, San Francisco, Philly; is married to Connie Chung
wQlY TIL: One of George Patton’s speeches was so vulgar that it had to be toned down for his movie biography. It included phrases such as not having to tell your future grandson you ‘shoveled shit in Louisiana’, but instead you 'rode with a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!’