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TIL that anti-occupation Rabbis have actually volunteered to be human shields in order to defend Palestinian villages from destruction

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xLZB TIL “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. The name ampersand comes from the fact that early 1800s school children reciting their ABCs concluded with “&” by saying “X, Y, Z, and per se and” (“per se” means “by itself”)
v1jaj TIL - that during WW1, the British created a campaign to shame men into enlisting. Women would hand out White Feathers to men not in uniform and berate them as cowards. The it was so successful that the government had to create badges for men in critical occupations so they would not be harassed.
mWOM TIL Pablo Escobar’s cartel was, at one point, spending $2500/month on rubber bands to hold all their cash.
0L1p TIL the word myriad means 10,000, but it can also mean a generically large number. It’s also okay to say “there’s myriad cats” or “there’s a myriad of cats”
lrr5 TIL the blood of young mice rejuvenates the brain function of old mice