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TIL Josef Mangele aka The Angel of Death, who was the chief Nazi Dr at Auschwitz, died of old age in Brazil in 1979

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QJKgM TIL that Finland's reindeer herders wanted to reduce the 4,000 annual reindeer road deaths. They painted antlers in fluorescent colors, hung reflectors around necks, and used movable traffic signs. This failed, so they tried a mobile app for drivers to register sightings and get reindeer warnings.
b6MN4 TIL learned that in 2003, Virginia Tech built a 'self-made' super computer (ranked #3 on the Nov 2003 TOP500 list) by using 1,100 Apple Power Mac G5 computers. It was named System X, from the Max OS X operating system.
x6BQo TIL that 35,000 tonnes of the steel in the Burj Khalifa was repurposed from the parliament building of the former state of East Germany.
68kQ TIL A city in California almost stopped the usage of Styrofoam cups because they were known to be made using “dihydrogen monoxide”, completely neglecting the fact that the substance is plain water.
bVdN TIL According to the Geneva Convention, knowingly firing at a medic wearing clear insignia is a war crime