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TIL Luffas don’t come from the ocean.

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WkLQA TIL Janusz Korczak was a man who accompanied 192 orphans to a concentration camp, refusing to save himself, while cheering and entertaining the children. He boarded the trains with them and was never heard from again.
5YR4r TIL Disney made a knockoff Star Wars rockband in 1981 called HALYX. The band played one summer at Disneyland and featured among many characters a bass playing "wookie". One of the songs they performed in front of kids and teens at Disneyland was a song about Jailbait called, "Jailbait"
Oo1yL Pregnancy cravings don't happen in every culture.
W499 TIL Beethoven hated giving piano lessons unless they were for exceptionally talented students or attractive young women of whatever talent. He was also a notorious space cadet and never learned how to multiply or divide
oBrlR TIL it is not until around the fifth month that the eyes are capable of working together to form a three-dimensional view of the world and begin to see in depth.