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TIL that the Nuremberg Trials was the first time in history that people were tried for crimes against humanity

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GjWQ TIL: In 2014 The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology accepted an article whose content was “Get me off your fucking mailing list.” repeated for ten pages.
p8d5e TIL Indian Maharaja Jam Sahib adopted 640 Polish orphans during WWII. He brought the children to the royal palace in Bombay, had a dormitory built for them, and brought in Polish teachers and chefs so the children would feel at home and "recover their health and forget the ordeal they went through".
aanL TIL: When you speak inside your mind small muscles in your throat mimic the formation of each word, and NASA is working on a machine that would detect these muscle movements and transcribe them to words.
LQpJZ TIL about the Oh-My-God particle; an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991. As of 2023 it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed and the time of its detection it was traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951 times the speed of light.
JBN1 TIL you can tell if a baby is self-aware by drawing a red dot on his/her forehead in front of a mirror