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TIL Kars4Kids donations go to a Jewish charity that sends kids on heritage trips to Israel

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rRdw0 TIL Due to the variety of its ecosystems, which include mountains, woods, plains, largely uninhabited territories, streams, rocky coasts, and long sandy beaches, the island of Sardinia has been defined metaphorically as a micro-continent.
69WA7 TIL: in 2001, an American couple actually got married in a submersible on the bow of Titanic’s wreck in an attempt to echo the famous scene from the film
rOlx TIL that German Gen. Erwin Rommel earned mutual respect with the Allies in WWII from his genius and humane tactics. He refused to kill Jewish prisoners, paid POWs for their labor, punished troops for killing civilians, fought alongside his troops, and even plotted to remove Hitler from power.
xVgk1 TIL It takes three months to clean the windows on the Burj Khalifa, but as they get cleaned four times a year it basically never stops.
woyQ7 TIL that Lincoln—a small city in Northern England—had the tallest building in the world, when the central spire of its cathedral was completed in the year 1311, at 160 metres tall.