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TIL that approximately 7% of our weight is our blood

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4XAD5 TIL that after World War II, a group of Holocaust survivors called "Nakam" tried to kill six million Germans as revenge for the Holocaust. They only succeeded in poisoning 2,283 German prisoners of war.
rNl1M TIL Mount Erebus is a continually active volcano in Antarctica, and it has an exposed lava lake that is nearly half a kilometer in diameter.
mxXaP TIL that a 74 year old Japanese man dressed as a ninja and burgled 254 homes and stole $260,000 worth of goods before finally being caught by local police.
LkAgZ TIL Socrates left no written work, and all we know about him is what other people (specifically Plato) wrote about him
x6Lg1 TIL of John Rabe, a Nazi who lived in China. He safeguarded 300,000 Chinese civilians from the Japanese during the “Rape of Nanking” and is regarded a hero in the city with numerous monuments dedicated to him.