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TIL of Mt. Zion Cemetery, founded in 1916 in East Los Angeles, as a burial place for Eastern European Jews. Amongst the buried was Lamed Shapiro, noted Yiddish writer who died destitute. Inconclusive county records indicate no legal owner, with the last burial taking place in the late 2000s.
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TIL: Native North American earthworms disappeared more than 10,000 years ago, when glaciers from a Pleistocene ice age wiped them out. New earthworms began entering North America as early as the 1600s, with the first European settlers. They crossed over in root balls or the dry ballast of ships.
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TIL that the founder of the Paneuropean Union, the oldest European unification movement, was the Austrian-Japanese politician, philosopher, and count Richard Nikolaus Eijiro. His wartime politics and adventures served as the real life basis for fictional Resistance hero Victor Laszlo.
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TIL that Pax Europaea (the European peace), was the period of relative peace experienced by Europe following World War II —often associated above all with the creation of the European Union (EU) and its predecessors. However, this period of European peace is now considered to have ended in 2022.
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