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TIL there’s a museum in Amsterdam that houses deformed human embryos and other such abnormalities

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yOme TIL during Prohibition, the U.S. government poisoned alcohol, killing as many as 10,000 people
b6x5j TIL during the Blizzard of '93, 116 students and teachers from a Michigan high school were stranded in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee for three nights when the blizzard dumped 5 feet of snow on them. All survived and were rescued after waving down a National Guard helicopter.
9YD4B TIL Quine is a self-reproducing program, where it has no input, but its output is an exact copy of itself.
6mp7 TIL That after defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington went on to seduce two of Napoleon’s former mistresses and was presented Napoleon’s sword and a saucy painting of his sister at the war’s end. One mistress is quoted as having preferred the Duke in bed.
Y7kBr TIL In 1985 the American military got into standoff with the Italian military over an Egyptian plane containing Palestinian boat hijackers. The event ended without major incident.