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TIL that when washing their hands, most people miss washing their thumbs and their fingertips

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b9EAN TIL Hitler offered to trade a million Jews for material goods, including 10,000 trucks. The Jews would have been allowed to go to any Allied country except Palestine, as Hitler had promised the Grand Mufti no Jews would settle in Palestine. The offer was rejected.
Z0YQ TIL - When lightning strikes sand it creates a glass “tube” under the sand.
VMXeB TIL in the 13th century, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II took two infants, raised them apart only to be suckled by nurses and not to be communicated with in attempt to see what the natural language of humans was (Hebrew or the language of their parents). However, the children died of neglect.
4kAyg TIL someone bought Lee Harvey Oswald’s Life Insurance for $80K
Lk5ep TIL that, Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence, was chemically castrated by the British Government for being a homosexual; following which he took his own life in 1954. He officially remained a criminal until 2013.