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yVXM8 TIL that europeans invented racism
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
GYe0g TIL That Subhas Ramsaywack who played a Janitor named Subhas on the TV show 30 Rock, was an actual janitor who worked at Silvercup Studios, where the show was filmed.
ADedo TIL During World War I, the German government carried out a census of Jews to prove that german Jews weren't pulling their weight in the war effort. What they found out instead was that Jews were overrepresented on the front lines.
ownL TIL India’s Dabbawalas deliver 200,000 meals a day, making one mistake in every 6,000,000 deliveries. FedEx and Harvard are studying their methods.