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TIL that in 2020, a teenage boy was playing video games with an online friend when he began having a seizure. Despite being over 5,000 miles away, his friend managed to alert the emergency services in his area, saving his life.

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P1XQG TIL that “Mona Lisa” is a corruption of the Italian “Monna Lisa.” Mona is a vulgar slang term for female genitalia in some Italian dialects.
Yv0G TIL the Hasidic Jewish population of East Ramapo NY elected Hasids to the public school board, which then started cutting the public school budget and closing public schools. Hasids don’t attend the public schools.
9OD6 TIL During a major Civil War battle, both armies briefly stopped fighting to watch a fist fight between two opposing soldiers who had both taken cover in the same place.
4dYg TIL there was a secret military unit organized to interrogate Nazi leaders and scientists after WWII known only by its mailing address, P.O. Box #1142
OmNL TIL that in Cuba a person can get more jail time for killing a cow (10 years in prison) than killing a human and that eaters of illegal beef can get three months to one year in prison