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TIL Nazi Germany’s ‘Perfect Aryan’ Propaganda Baby Turns Out To Be Jewish

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DQ0Rr TIL About Hannah Dagoe, who when she was to be hanged for burglary, punched the hangman, dared him to hang her, threw her clothing to the crowd, then jumped off and broke her own neck before the hangman could push her off.
pY9Np TIL: There is a shipwreck in a cave not far from New Zealand that contains close to 5 Million USD of gold.
loB0V TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.
loEWA TIL that Ibn Sina or Avicenna is widely considered to be the “Father of modern Medicine”. His book “The Canon of Medicine” published in 1025 became the standard textbook of medicine and remained a medical authority for centuries in the Medieval Europe and the Islamic world
QJonk TIL that William Atherton who plays the lawyer Walter Peck in Ghostbusters was so hated that after the movie came out he was harassed on the street and challenged to fights in bars.