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TIL that the oldest Jewish state in the world isn't Israel: it's Birobidzhan, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia, founded in 1934.

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4Xnm5 TIL the 1992 Joe Pesci comedy My Cousin Vinny is praised by legal experts as being one if the most accurate film depictions of courtroom procedure and trial strategy. It is even cited in textbooks on law.
AN7ao TIL that in 1942, Nazi Germany was patrolling off the North Carolina coast, and a British ship was sunk defending the NC coast.
8YE8 TIL there are 21 “secret” Interstate Highways in the US. They are not marked, but are officially a part of the Eisenhower Interstate System.
Lkdjm TIL that 40 percent of Cambodians suffer psychological problems as a result of the Khmer Rouge massacre that killed a third of its population between 1975 and 1979
7eB7 TIL The town of Tikrit in Iraq erected a monument of the shoe thrown at Geroge W Bush.