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TIL that James Madison was only 5’4” and about 100 pounds
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TIL that a county in Oregon advertised that it was hiring Klingon translators for its mental health program, in case patients came into a psychiatric hospital speaking nothing but Klingon. They later clarified that this wasn't a situation they had faced, and only a precaution for a hypothetical case
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TIL that The Beatles re-recorded two of their hit singles in German due to wanting to sell more in Germany
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TIL Brazil has a thriving Southern Confederate ex-pat community that hold festivals every April
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TIL the Khlysty, a Russian Christian sect, would engage at the end of their services in "group sinning" (a frenzied sexual orgy), to purify themselves from the lusts of the flesh. They believed that salvation required total repentance, which was far more achievable for one who had truly transgressed
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TIL the peace sign consists of the semaphore signs for N and D, for Nuclear Disarmament - designed by Gerard Holtom for the 1958 British Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament. How did I not know that?