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TIL that the Grand Mosque in Paris, under Si Kaddour Benghabrit, saved hundreds of Jews during WW2 by granting them fake papers and allowing them to hide in the catacombs beneath the mosque.

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EgKkW TIL If you hold in a fart too long it gets reabsorbed in the blood and directed to the lungs where it would be exhaled in your breath .
BwRx TIL Eamon de Valera was imprisoned for leading the Easter Rising. While inside, he took the chaplain’s key and melted candles to make a copy and sent it to his friends. They made a real key and put it in a cake. Valera was able to walk out scot-free. He went on to serve as the President of Ireland.
loyBG TIL King Minos of Crete was the first recorded user of a condom, made of sheep's bladder. This is because his semen was poisonous, he ejaculated "serpents and scorpions" that killed his wives and mistresses.
8j0b TIL the Americans botched the hanging of the German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keital. The trapdoor was too small and he smashed his head going down, and the force didn’t break his neck so it took a full 24 minutes for him to suffocate.
lko5 TIL that there is a Starbucks where they don’t write your name on your cup: the one at the CIA’s headquarters. Baristas are escorted to and from work, and the receipts identify the establishment as simply “Store Number 1.”