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TIL Ferdinand Schörner was the last man promoted to Field Marshal in the Wehrmacht and Hitler’s final Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.

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kJ1V7 TIL that, similarly to the soapy cilantro taste gene, some people have a genetic predisposition that prevents them from smelling “asparagus urine.”
rV6e TIL a 1999 Russian book re-tells Lord Of The Rings from Sauron’s perspective with Gandalf and the fellowship as the villains
LxOV TIL the girl who played teenage Elsa in Frozen plays Kyle’s brother Ike in South Park
MexNB TIL a village in India is addicted to chess after one man taught everyone how to play 50 years ago to stop excessive alcohol use and gambling which has now all declined to almost nothing
G8wE TIL there is a programming language called Malbolge, specifically designed to be almost impossible to use. When it was created it was so difficult to understand that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear.