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TIL there is a nuclear bomb lost at the bottom of the Philippine Sea

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gMLNy TIL the word 'nice' originally meant 'foolish' or 'stupid' as it came from the Latin 'nescire', meaning 'to be ignorant'
XEyb6 TIL: The USA Owns 1 Acre of Land in Mexico City that Serves as a Cemetery for Soldiers Killed in the Mexican-American War. 170 Years Later, 813 Americans are Still Buried Here.
YR8B TIL that Henry Ford loved Hitler and received the Nazi regime’s highest medal for a foreigner
X0eXQ TIL that there’s a medical procedure called “Fecal Transplant” that literally consists in collecting feces, also called stool or poop, from a healthy donor and introduce them into a patient’s gastrointestinal tract. The procedure can control an infection called Clostridium difficile.
OovvL TIL that Immanuel Kant promoted "scientific" racism, giving a hierarchy of four races: white Europeans "always advance to perfection", yellow Asians "can never reach the level of abstract concepts", black Africans "can be educated but only as servants", and red Amerindians "cannot be educated"