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TIL that Germany didn't invent concentration camps, America did.

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JJXv TIL a Japanese Oil Tanker captain fell into a cactus at a Santa Barbra Oil Field, provoking laughter from the local workers. 5 years later he returned in an Imperial Japanese Navy sub and made the first mainland shelling of the US at that oil field.
X017E TIL that people with HIV still live about 7 years shorter than people without HIV, and experience major chronic diseases (liver disease, kidney disease, lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer) about 10 years earlier than people without HIV.
p8jvN TIL while Car & Driver was testing the 1978 Porsche 911SC when it was new, the writer remarked that it could have been the last 911 and the last rear-engined Porsche.
pYKZ TIL that over 1 billion years of history is missing from the geologic record in the Grand Canyon
WeNB TIL since many female insects mate just once in their lives, insect populations can be controlled by releasing swarms of sterile males into the wild; the females mate with them, never have babies, and die. The method has eradicated populations of dangerous insects in several regions.