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TIL that german Rudolf Spanner made soap out of human fat in Danzig during world war 2

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Z5Qv TIL Peter Berg & “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan wrote a script titled “Tonight he Comes” about a superhero who could not make love because his ejaculate would kill a woman. Vince Gilligan left to create “Breaking Bad”, and Berg took over the original script, which eventually became “Hancock.”
Qjk6 TIL The US Navy is reinstating celestial navigation due to computer navigation being vulnerable to cyber attacks.
kOPDW TIL one person in four is a 'supertaster', who experience the sensation of tasting more intensely. Supertasters have a high density of taste cells on their tongue, but are likely to have a distaste for beer.
oBAE8 TIL the name titmouse comes from the Scandinavian “tit” (small) and the Old English “mase” (bird), literally “small bird”
x6lZ1 TIL a man sideswiped a telephone pole while his friend's head was hanging out by the window, decapitating him. He continued driving home and went to sleep, not realizing the incident.