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TIL: Judaism has co-official religion status in three jurisdictions: Israel; Alsace-Moselle, France; and Singapore.

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rR8M TIL that luminaries including Noah Webster, Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, and Theodore Roosevelt advocated for simplified spelling, and many of them also supported simplified spellings of words such as though (tho), through (thru), and night (nite).
ZakB TIL a California liked to hike in a canyon occupied by a bear family. One day he was attacked by a mountain lion and was saved when the mother bear ran to his defense.
ADLxa TIL "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" is an ill defined crime under the law of the People's Republic of China punishable by up to five years in prison.
PXJw TIL of Stanisława Leszczyńska, a polish midwife who was incarcerated at Auschwitz during WW2. Leszczyńska was advised to euthanize the newborns she delivered. She did not comply, did not kill a single child, and delivered over 3,000 children. Today she is an official candidate for sainthood.
R79Yl TIL: National Pizza Month observance began in October 1984, and was created by Gerry Durnell, the publisher of Pizza Today magazine.