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TIL Bill Nye quit his job at Boeing to be a stand up comic after winning a Steve Martin look alike contest in 1978.

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D1EGr TIL that Hitler's dentist, Hugo Johannes Blaschke, who held the rank of SS-Brigadeführer, studied dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
px1Z TIL in 1987, North Korea brought down a South Korean jet on its way to Seoul from Baghdad. NK’s agent was posing as a Japanese national, having been taught Japanese language and customs for 3 years by a Japanese woman who was abducted from her home in Northern Japan
vPVkx TIL that the Sand Dollar is a living organism
00xp TIL the Pyrenean Ibex is the only species to have been brought back from extinction, albeit only for around seven minutes.
aN49 TIL of an experiment called The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Three schizophrenics claiming to be Jesus were brought together have their reactions documented. In the end, each came to the conclusion that the other two must have mental issues.