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TIL that Polish is the third most spoken language in Chicago
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TIL that there is a complete ban on women, and even female animals, entering the peninsula of Mount Athos in Greece, due to the peninsula being home to 20 monasteries
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TIL Microsoft Excel observes the fictional date 29 February 1900 in order to maintain compatibility with older versions of Lotus 1-2-3, another spreadsheet program
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TIL During WWII, the Dutch resistance recruited teenage girls to seduce and kill Nazis
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TIL the New England vampire panic was the reaction to an outbreak of tuberculosis in the 19th century throughout New England. Tuberculosis was thought to be caused by the deceased consuming the life of their surviving relatives.
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TIL Hans-Ulrich Rudel is the only person to be awarded the “Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds”, the highest a soldier could achieve; he flew 2,530 combat missions and was shot down or forced to land 32 times, several times behind enemy lines.