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TIL the way the sun "gives" people vitamin D is by converting cholesterol in the skin to vitamin D.

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N7MMb TIL about Werner Goldberg, a blond-haired blue-eyed German soldier who was used in Nazi propoganda and recruiting as the "ideal German Soldier". He was later dismissed as he was part Jewish.
LMRv TIL in 2011, two judges were convicted in a scheme that involved $2.6 million in kickbacks from owners of private detention centers in exchange for diverting over 4000 juvenile defendants to the private detention centers, often for minor crimes such as mocking a principal on Myspace and trespassing
nWWbW TIL the Big Bang wasn’t actually an explosion that happened in the center of the universe, there is not even a center to the universe. It has happened and has been happening everywhere all at once.
QNgE TIL a Spanish woman claims she legally owns the sun and is trying to charge people for the use of the sun.
oBdXW TIL 6 geologists were convicted of manslaughter in Italy, 2009, for failing to predict an earthquake