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TIL: The earth’s core is 2.5 years younger than the crust. Time dilation.

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6EypJ TIL about Ben Ferencz (100), the last living prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials. After WW2 where he fought at D-Day and in other battles, he at age 27 became Chief Prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial - which was his first case and first time in a courtroom. All of the 22 accused were convicted.
R7PMa TIL 100 square miles of LA are surrounded by a religious physical wall called an "eruv" which symbolically extends the private domain of Jewish households into public areas, permitting activities within it that are normally forbidden in public on the Sabbath, such as carrying babies.
yV09l TIL There isn’t a single stop sign in Paris
Y79P7 TIL between 1962 and 1989 the West German government bought nearly 34,000 East German political prisoners for approximately 40,000 Deutsche Mark (roughly 20,000 Euro) per Person.
LQL0m TIL that in Tiger Woods 99 for the PlayStation 1, in the first 100,000 copies of the game had an Easter egg that a developer snuck in when put into a computer, it contained a DAT. file that would play the first ever South Park short made. These copies were later recalled by EA