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TIL that French author Maurice Leblanc, in response either to a copyright complaint or a polite request from Arthur Conan Doyle, created the character "Herlock Sholmès."

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E16AP TIL that,during the Cold War, the Canadian government commissioned the creation of a device that could detect homosexuality in people in order to keep members of the LGBT community out of public service or the military.Its nickname?"Fruit Machine".
wMgP TIL: Having a child can have a pretty strong negative impact on a person’s happiness. On average, the effect of a new baby on a person’s life in the first year is worse than divorce, worse than unemployment and worse even than the death of a partner.
oBkaW TIL about Daniel Lambert (1770 – 1809), a prison guard and animal breeder who was the largest man in recorded history during his lifetime. He once fought a bear in the streets, and became so poor that he was forced to put himself on display.
OX8Y TIL that during WW2 Nazi Germany had a hospital/concentration camp in village Krasny Bereg where they drained all blood from thousands of soviet children (obviously, killing them in the process) to transfuse it to wounded soldiers of the Wehrmacht
9ww4p TIL in Ancient Greece they believed Leprosy is cured by bathing in the blood of children