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TIL Germany still legally recognizes "Aryan certificates" that were issued by the Nazi government from 1933 to 1945.

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Ykjr TIL that a middle aged operator at Chernobyl intentionally went into 5-15k R/hr radiation fields to take emergency actions to prevent younger men having to - he received 5x the amount of radiation needed to kill a human and saved many lives.
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nW6kP TIL that the San people, one of the most genetically diverse group of people in the world, have separated from the rest of humans around 200,000 years ago, just a 100,000 years less from the lowest estimate of when humans separated from Neanderthals.
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