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TIL that the Church of Christian Science promotes illness as an illusion that can be cured through prayer alone.

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66vw TIL Felix Landau, of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen (death squads), once shot and killed the Jewish personal dentist of a fellow officer. That officer, as an act of revenge, killed Landau’s ‘favorite jew’, the artist Bruno Schulz. He later told Landau “You killed my jew - I killed yours.”
Y6jZ TIL in “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, child actor Haley Joel Osment suggested to Steven Spielberg that to portray an Android well he shouldn’t blink. Osment does not blink once during the entire film.
78DkP TIL the second most spoken first language in Brazil is German (various dialects)
W7DlY TIL Texas A&M has a campus in Qatar
ADQGx TIL people used to believe toothaches and other dental problems were caused by "tooth worms" that lived in our teeth and consumed them from the inside out.