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TIL: Hans Asperger (after whom a type of autism is named) helped the nazis to euthanize disabled children

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R5WD7 TIL In 1984 "Baby Fae" received a baboon heart transplant at just 11 days old and survived 21 days before rejecting it.
KOOM4 TIL in 1851, Hong Xiuquan, claiming to be the brother of Jesus Christ, staged a rebellion and captured South China from the Qing dynasty
LQoNP TIL that St. Urho's Day is observed every March 16th, celebrating his driving grasshoppers out of Finland and saving the grapes for the Finnish wine industry
WQKA TIL there is a tiger named Kenny who is the only known tiger to have downs syndrome
9YykX TIL that one of the 7 ancient worldwonders, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, probably did not exist. Scientists have not found any evidence of its existence even today. It is now assumed that the gardens either stood somewhere else, or they were merely a myth of writers.