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TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who is searching for his twin on Facebook

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0wYZA TIL that in 2013 "The Looney Tunes Show" established that "Yosemite Sam's" full name is Samuel Michelangelo Rosenbaum.
ANAo7 TIL that the flaming chalice for Unitarian-Universalism was created by an Austrian Jewish refugee named Hans Deutsch, who took inspiration from flaming chalices of oil at ancient Roman and Greek altars
p8ye TIL Astronauts experience a euphoric ‘cognitive shift’ akin to Buddhist Monks after seeing Earth from space.
VBYOk TIL Broccolini was developed in the 1990’s
X0MZR TIL That before semiconductor diodes and such were invented, mercury arc valves were used