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TIL that Thalidomide, the drug responsible for thousands of birth defects across Europe in the 1950s/60s, was developed by a doctor who had previously worked for the Nazis, experimenting on concentration camp victims

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DQVvv TIL about the CSS Shenandoah, a sailing ship used by the Confederate States Navy during the American Civil War. She surrendered on November 6, 1865 on the River Mersey in the United Kingdom 6 months after the end of the war.
WEod TIL Matt Groening’s Mother’s maiden name was Wiggum.
Y7yR7 TIL that for 30 years, South Korea had 110-120 boys born for every 100 girls, resulting in 700,000 to 800,000 “extra” South Korean men who now are having difficulty finding women to marry
N7r4E TIL that the scientists who first discovered the platypus thought it was fake. Although indigenous Aboriginal people already knew of the creature, European scientists assumed an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous mammal had to be an elaborate hoax.
OP7L TIL dancing in clubs after midnight is illegal in Japan