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TIL that the Soviet Secret Police on Stalin’s orders executed 22,000 Polish officers but Roosevelt and Churchill had to deny it and blame the Nazis in order to maintain their alliance with Stalin

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Qw8k TIL Dr.James Watson, Nobel Prize winner & co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, believed that babies shouldn’t be considered alive until 3 days after birth so that if the baby is sick, disabled, deformed, or deemed otherwise unacceptable, the baby can be legally left to die or euthanized.
NX5Q6 TIL that life expectancy has been dropping continuously for the last few decades
R79Zw TIL that a cell phone contains 10 times more bacteria than a toilet seat. Recent studies have found 17,000 bacterial gene copies on phones and also that Americans check their phones about 47 times per day.
OooJR TIL that a New Zealand school generated controversy over a possum-tossing contest. Students would shoot the possums (an invasive pest in New Zealand) and then see how far they could chuck the marsupial's carcasses.
OGxk6 TIL background music help with concentration - it increases task-focus and decreases mind-wandering