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TIL that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Completely delegitimizing any ancestral claim to Palestine.

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JNPm TIL that despite its budget of $45,000,000, Foodfight(2012) has the lowest score for an animation movie in IMDB. It featured the voices of Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff and Eva Longoria.
KOkAR TIL some lab employees at CERN, the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, carried out a “prank” where they staged a human sacrifice in front of their statue of shiva
mxyxR TIL that one of the attempts to find El Dorado, the mythical city of gold, involved draining a lake using a bucket chain of laborers. Over three months, the lake level fell 3 meters and only recovered about $100K worth of gold.
xVmK0 TIL Despite looking like a rectangle on maps, Colorado is actually a concave polygon with 697 sides.
99AQ TIL that Seattle kids have a lower polio vaccination than the African country of Rwanda