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TIL cooking has a million-year history

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nevj9 TIL of the 1936 Nazi Board Game "Jews Out" where you move your 'Jews' outside of the city walls to 'collection points' so they can be sent to "Palestine"
pYvpZ TIL There was a rumor that Richard Gere stuck a gerbil in his rectum.
4XDyg TIL as early as 839 AD, Swedes & Scandanavians served as mercenaries in the Byzantine army. Swedish men left to enlist in such numbers that a new law "Västgötalagen" was created that said no one could inherit while staying in Greece to stop emigration.
wbXM TIL Alan Ruck and Matthew Broderick were close to 30 while acting as high school students in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (1986)
oBB1R TIL the small city of Sitakunda in Bangladesh has the largest ship-breaking industry in the world.