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TIL the Nazis considered Native Americans to be part of the Aryan race.

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Y5Qd TIL there is 237,000 tonnes of Arsenic Trioxide frozen in a degrading mine in Yellowknife, enough arsenic to kill the world several times over.
QNLyM TIL that the largest prime number discovered as of June 2023 contains 24,862,048 digits.
dK58 TIL that Robin Williams ad-libbed so much of his role in Aladdin that the film was denied a nomination for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar
xaQw TIL that in science a theory can never be “upgraded” to a law. They are entirely separate concepts.
8aZDV TIL - In certain cancer cases acute secondary infection causes the immune system to destroy the cancer leaving the patient free of that cancer for life. At least one doctor named William Coley developed a therapy to recreate this scenario under controlled conditions.