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TIL People who take vitamin B6 dream more vividly.

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nWKab TIL Torquemada, a Spanish friar, influenced the 1492 Alhambra Decree, expelling 200,000 Jews from Spain for not converting to Christianity. He created the Inquisition’s framework for trials, property seizures, and oversaw thousands of executions for heresy. Ironically, his family had Jewish roots.
L5pr TIL When Taco Bell attempted to enter Mexico their food was labeled as “Authentic American Food”
BrZ5r TIL April 18, 1930, was such a slow news day that at 6:30 PM, the BBC's radio announcer said, “There is no news."
4kmaX TIL there was a 1983 mars landing planned in 1969
kOxgW TIL that California Governor Leland Stanford Sr. lost his only child to Typhoid. Because of this, Stanford Sr. decided to honor his dead son by spending his fortune to build Stanford University, telling his wife that "the children of California shall be our children".