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TIL that one of Hitlers close friends and personal driver (Emil Maurice) had a Jewish ancestry. Hitler declared Emil and his brothers Honorary Aryans so that they could stay in the SS

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BrWEk TIL 'US Radium' employed women to paint dials of watches with radioactive radium paint. The women were instructed to point their brushes on their lips. This led to many of the workers' losing their jaws and even deaths. Company paid examiners covered it up and claimed they had syphilis.
wLrD1 TIL Though fully described by John Langdon Down in 1862, Down Syndrome has been featured in numerous works of art since antiquity, including an Ancient Egyptian figure, and Clay figure from Mexico from about AD 500
VB0GG TIL that in 1992, Zhang Shan was the first and only woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal in skeet shooting competing against men. At the next Olympic games, men and women had their own categories.
XXWD TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar accepted his role in Airplane! because the money they offered him would cover the cost of a rug he wanted.
69mw7 TIL that most PC and laptop keyboards have tactile markers on F and J keys to help locate them