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TIL Rust doesn't cause tetanus and is relatively harmless in small quantities

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d8Ml8 TIL some WWII Allies who ended up in Switzerland were housed at the Wauwilermoos penal camp. Conditions there were brutal, violating the 1929 Geneva Conventions, and the self-appointed warden was a Nazi sympathizer. The camp was mostly ignored until 2013.
yDN8 TIL President Roosevelt collapsed while being painted. He never regained consciousness before dying. The unfinished painting captures his last waking moment.
GAA8j TIL There is a storm on Jupiter big enough to swallow the earth
v84j TIL Thomas Jefferson believed blacks were inherently inferior to whites, but were superior in musical ability.
l7Mv5 TIL that the name "Big Ben" refers to the bell itself, not the entire clock tower.