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TIL: Nearly 70% of Jewish people are lactose intolerant
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TIL that Carl Jung once told an alcoholic patient that the only way to get better was through spiritual means. The patient then joined a group and told them what Jung said. One of the group members eventually created Alcoholics Anonymous.
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TIL in WWI, German, French, and British forces used fake, hollow trees to spy on their enemies' movement. To do this, combat artists would duplicate a bombed out tree nearby, and under the cover of darkness, engineers would uproot the original tree and replace it with the fake one.
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TIL: From 1885 until 1896, the first artificial structure visible to immigrants arriving to the United States was the giant Coney Island Elephant
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TIL General Motors uses byproducts from their cars to create artificial stalactites for bats. These artificial caves help prevent the spread of white-nose syndrome (a deadly fungus) by reducing overcrowding & giving the bats more space.
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TIL until 1975 a French husband had the legal right to kill a cheating wife. Honor killings for adultery were legal until 1991 in Brazil and until 2005 in Haiti.