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TIL that in 1291, two brothers from Genoa sailed into the Atlantic in search of a sea route to India. They made it to Morocco but were never seen again.

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womx8 TIL in the ‘60s, filmmaker Bob Clark, driving en route to a date, heard writer Jean Shepherd's childhood stories on a radio broadcast. After circling a block for an hour till the broadcast ended, Clark was inspired to create a movie based on Shepherd’s tales. The outcome? 1983’s "A Christmas Story."
691KW TIL Lone star ticks can give you an indefinite allergy to red meat if they bite you.
N7y6 TIL there is a plot of land between Egypt and Sudan claimed by no country.
peOO TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
KMWE TIL that illiterate immigrant Jews signed with a circle in lieu of their names. The Yiddish word for Circle was kikel, leading to the ethnic slur “kike”