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4QdR TIL Dolphins deliberately chew on pufferfish to get high
yQOva TIL the Talmud (Jewish book of Rabbinical debate) is a best seller in South Korea. South Koreans endorse the stereotype of Jews being successful in education and business so they started studying the Talmud as a means of acquiring Jewish success.
dxA9 TIL in Japan women give chocolates to men on Valentine’s Day and the men reciprocate it a month later for White Day.
4Q9N TIL Stalin’s hated his oldest son,Yakov, so much that when he tried and failed to commit suicide by gun Stalin joked “He can’t even shoot straight.” Yakov later died in a German concentration camp, possibly after disobeying a guard. Stalin felt this was an honorable death.
gw5W TIL that the early church viewed alcohol as a gift from god that made life joyous.