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TIL MDMA (Ecstasy) is currently being investigated to treat social anxiety in autism

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D56r TIL one of Hitler’s personal chauffeurs and close friends was found to be Jewish and was targeted for expulsion from the SS by Heinrich Himmler. Upon hearing that Maurice was of Jewish descent Hitler made an exception for Maurice and his brothers calling them “honorary Aryans.”
8ewrb TIL that Dox is a is a white dwarf having an atmosphere of almost pure oxygen.
Z8ZMG TIL that "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-lot was a call to see beauty in diversity. Sir Mix-a-lot used the song to blame the media for skewing the notion of beauty and hoped his music would empower women of all shapes and sizes.
0de5R TIL the first ever purchase made in Euros was for a kilo of Lychees, and happened on Jan 1, 2002 on the French island of Réunion.
nwwG TIL The world’s oceans teem with something like 700,000 to 1 million species, up to two-thirds of which biologists have never named or characterized