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TIL the retina in your eye is actually considered to be part of the brain

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9wA9r TIL The first German soldier killed during WWII was Lieutenant von Schmeling. He was killed by the Japanese while leading the Chinese in 1937.
ZpGlQ TIL Tsukuba Syndrome, a phenomenon where researchers in Tsukuba Science City, a research hub northeast of Tokyo, committed suicide in the 1970s-80s. The suicide rate was more than twice that of the general population. In late 1985, three people from the same lab took their lives within a month.
YpOdG TIL that plastic and petroleum were originally environmental saviours, because they eliminated the need to kill whales, elephants, turtles, and many other creatures for their materials.
neeEB TIL that Time Life broadcasting sued Indiana in 1968 to force the state to observe Daylight Saving Time
bkBQ TIL there is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas.