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TIL severed fingertips can sometimes regenerate, but mostly this only occurs for kids and only if some fingernail remains.

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p8N9Q TIL that Burger King is called ’Hungry Jack’s’ in Australia because some bloke in Adelaide already had a snack stand called Burger King and wouldn't change it, so BK gave Jack (the original franchisee) some choices on names and he chose Hungry Jack’s.
QNvvk TIL in March 1933 The Enabling Act became law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
BxDe TIL that the US seized a wire transfer between Denmark and Germany to pay for Cuban cigars, citing its own trade embargo with Cuba as justification
D16EJ TIL of Jerome Motto, who was an American psychiatrist and conducted the first suicide prevention intervention that reduced deaths by suicide.
9LgD TIL that a lot of the “Germans” in Hogan’s Heroes were actually Jewish actors who spent time in concentration camps.