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TIL that scientists had to rename as many as 27 human genes because Microsoft Excel kept misreading their symbols as dates

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nWEXY TIL that Adolph Hitler's half nephew - William Patrick Hitler - served in the american navy during WW2, fighting against his uncle and receiving a purple heart. He only changed his name to William Patrick Stuart-Houston after the war.
6wO8 TIL spray paint used to cake up in automobile factories to such a degree that it could be cut, polished, and set in jewelry. The resulting stone is known as “Fordite” or “Motor Agate”
M74YV TIL about Blindsight, blindness caused by damage to the brain's occipital cortex. People with blindsight cannot consciously see, but they still have a sense of depth and motion, can develop reflexes, "sense" when something is in front of them, etc.
J11X1 TIL in 1975 women in Iceland went on a general strike to protest employment and wage inequity.
JYL8m TIL of the Kaningara tribe of Papua New Guinea, who used to use bamboo knives to cut the flesh of boys and young men, to fill them with the power of the crocodile spirit.