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TIL Ben Ferencz is the last living prosecutor from the Nuremburg Trials and is 102 years old

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DZeD TIL Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, William Lawrence Bragg is the only father and son to share a Nobel Prize in physics.
woNo TIL that a Man-O’-War is neither a jellyfish nor a single creature. It is a colonial organism made up of small creatures called zooids.
Xo0Q TIL that there is a small town in Venezuela, founded by German immigrants in 1843, that has maintained its authentic origin culture, including architecture, cuisine, and language, so much that it is known as ‘The Germany of the Caribbean’
xVPQw TIL The original lightsaber prop used in Star Wars by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker is inside the International Space Station and was flown by STS-120 last August 2007
d8mM8 TIL that in the 1940s, penicillin was so limited that it was re-extracted from the urine of patients to conserve it.