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TIL that in 1986, The New Republic's most-boring-headline award went to The New York Times for "Worthwhile Canadian initiative."

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JRYv TIL that the Vatican still blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus until 1965.
ajP0 TIL one gallon (about 4 liters) of gasoline contains about 31,000,000 calories
6E07m TIL Persian leader Cyrus the Great liberated the Jewish people from captivity in Babylon 538 BCE. Isaiah 45:1 of the Hebrew Bible even refers to him as a messiah and he is the only non-Jewish figure in the Bible to be called so.
kWQ4 TIL in Japan there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years (founded in 705) or 46 generations
BrQYD TIL JRR Tolkien was a supporter of the constructed language Esperanto, believing it could help unite Europe after World War I. He also created new languages like Elvish, calling it his "secret vice", and explained that for him the purpose was aesthetic rather than pragmatic