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TIL that Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is a current bestseller in India, and many Indians believe him to be a more respectable role-model than Gandhi.

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ndpr TIL that Professor Kenneth Bentley and his entire team, who discovered Etorphine (a drug which is 1000-3000 times more potent than morphine and 4mg will immobilize a 4000kg elephant), passed out because someone stirred their morning tea with a glass stirrer used to make the etorphine.
JYVM8 TIL that a woman named 'Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado', a Peruvian citizen, is the youngest mother in history. At the age of five years, seven months, and 21 days was she able to give birth to a child with an undisclosed father... Or so they thought?
x69D TIL Irma Grese aka “The Hyena of Auschwitz” was a female guard in Auschwitz who used human skin as a lampshade and before executed calmly said ‘Schnell’ which means 'Quick, get it over’ in German.
d8RWr TIL: Words in songs are called lyrics because in ancient Greece poems used to be accompanied by a lyre
Mk4a TIL one of the drugs to treat Valium dependency is… Valium.