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TIL that inmate Thomas Silverstein has spent the last 34 years in Solitary Confinement with no human contact at all.

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GGbg TIL the “perfect Aryan baby” chosen by Goebbels and widely circulated in mid-1930s Nazi propaganda was later found to be Jewish
1gD8 TIL that the hoax, Dutch reality show De Grote Donorshow, where patients competed for a dying woman’s kidney, was created with the intention of raising awareness about the lack of organ donors. Six weeks after the show aired 12,000 new donors had signed up.
Z8EDG TIL of Anandibai Joshi, the first female doctor from India. She was also the first woman in India to complete her studies in western medicine from the United States.
rQ71 TIL that two people have won the 1 million dollar prize on “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” – a superintendent from Georgia and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.
yQQVX TIL that 80% of the population of the Australian mining town of Coober Pedy live underground