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TIL that Irena Sendler and her fellow social service workers smuggled 2500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, effectively saving them from the holocaust.

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Qdgk TIL if you make 25000 USD in a year, you are in the top 2% richest people in the world by income
vbO7 TIL the Virtual Reality Analgesia Research Center in Washington uses $35,000 goggles to obtain drops in pain ratings of burn victims by 30-50% through distraction. “VR not only reduces pain perception; it changes the way the brain processes pain signals.”
dByr TIL of Andy George, a man who spent 6 months hand growing and raising every ingredient to make a sandwich. After a rough cost of $1,500, he says it was the pickles and mayo that threw off the final product.
l8eG TIL that Dr. John Rock, the creator of the birth control pill, was a devout Catholic and invented the pill to compliment the Calendar method of contraception.
7gGp TIL Mister Rogers composed nearly all the music on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and he held a degree in music composition.