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TIL Dr. Hans Munch, a German physician at Auschwitz, refused to take part in the inmate murders there. He designed his experiments to be elaborate ruses to protect them, since those who were no longer useful were usually killed.

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x65vo TIL in 1958 a nighttime training exercise resulted in a mid-air collision between an F-86 Sabre and a B-47 Startojet. To save the aircraft, the B-47 crew ditched their nuclear payload to save weight. The undetonated weapon is believed to have sunk near Tybee Island and remains unrecovered today.
401J TIL Oranges are actually a hybrid fruit - It is a cross between a pomelo (75%) and a mandarin (25%)
VMaek TIL about the world’s first interactive movie from 1967, the Kinoautomat. At nine points during the film the action stops and the audience has to choose between two scenes. Following an audience vote, the chosen scene is played.
ev6k TIL that if the human eye was a camera it would cost roughly $35.000.000
WkVd4 TIL that the famous boxing announcer Michael Buffer got his catchphrase "Lets Get Ready to Rumble" trademarked in 1992. As of the year 2009, the trademark is worth $400 million from it being licensed.