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TIL the bones of notorious Auschwitz doctor and SS officer Josef Mengele are used as a teaching aid in medical forensics classes at the University of São Paulo. They were originally exhumed in 1985 in order to confirm his death.

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JYY4B TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant pretending to be a radical Muslim in a mosque, and the Muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI.
9LMG TIL: The Zika virus is the first insect-borne disease that has been shown to pass from human to human by sexual contact. Zika is normally transmitted by mosquitoes. It has symptoms similar to dengue fever.
EgOEo TIL about transgenerational obesogens - substances which when consumed by pregnant people, will have lifelong effects of predisposing that future child to obesity by altering adipogenesis
M7grb TIL though it's long been prized for its clarity and luxurious feel, "crystal glass," also called Lead Glass, contains up to 40% lead by mass. It has been proposed that the historic association of gout with the upper class was, in part, caused by their extensive use of lead crystal to store alcohol.
Zp97p TIL that Homo sapiens were not the first farmers in Earth's history. Ants have been farming fungus for over 60 million years.