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TIL the Korean military created a professional StarCraft team so their country’s top player could continue to compete while he was in the Air Force.

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b98Q4 TIL a 64 year old Finnish skier hit 125 mph at the Albertville Olympics in 1992. 38 years prior he finished 11th in the Combined event (downhill and slalom) at the 1956 Olympics at Cortina.
MeO0K TIL that for Apollo 11, there was a speech prepared just in case Neil and Buzz had to commit suicide on the moon.
6EoQX TIL Baroque composers Handel and Bach were born 26 days apart and lived 70 miles away from each other but had never met
1Nj4 TIL that during the Holocaust, Polish doctors Eugene Lazowski and Stanisław Matulewicz saved 8,000 Jews by creating a fake Typhus epidemic. The Germans quarantined the area instead of risking outbreaks by sending them to concentration camps.
LDL9 TIL common vaccines used on “hundreds of millions of people” were developed from lung tissue cells of a three month old, female human fetus aborted in Sweden in 1962, and it’s not clear if the mother gave her permission