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TIL that brass door knobs automatically disinfect themselves after roughly 8 hours due to the 'oligodynamic effect'

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p8LAG TIL in 1911, inmates on death row played baseball for their lives. If they won, execution was delayed. If they lost, their execution went ahead as scheduled.
nWwO9 TIL that Andrew Jackson’s Parrot got kicked out of his funeral for swearing
OG6WY TIL that JAXA (Japanese NASA) tests astronaut candidates by making them fold a thousand origami cranes. This helps determine how the person deals with boring, repetitive tasks and time constraints.
X0vQ8 TIL of the Association of German National Jews - a pro-Nazi Jewish organisation. Founded in 1921 as an anti-communist body it wholeheartedly supported the Nazis arguing their anti-Semitic stance was only rhetoric. It was banned in 1935 and it's founder taken by the Gestapo.