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TIL: Nazis' infamous lebensborn racial purity programme, forcing "Aryan" fit women from occupied countries to bear their children. The famous Abba singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad is one of these children

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6EQpJ TIL scientists are going to try and bring back the northern white rhino from extinction by combining the eggs from the southern white rhino with the cryopreserved sperm of a northern white rhino to create viable embryos and embryonic stem cells!
8bjP TIL Hipsters in NY are paying $1,000+ to go to preschool where they engage in activities like show and tell, dress up, and nap time.
Vl6m TIL that 18-year-old teenager helped scientists study her own rare type of cancer, and together they discovered a gene flaw possibly involved in the disease’s growth
BgXJD TIL that the United States consumes more oil per day than China and India combined, although the US population is just a little over 10% of the total population of those two countries.
jN0JN TIL: Until the late '60s Disneyland banned male guests who had long hair