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TIL during the aftermath of Katrina, Memorial Hospital in New Orleans euthanized patients the staff felt they could not reasonably evacuate.

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ne9Qr TIL Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him so he had 15 girls taste the food before he ate it himself. ""The food was delicious, only the best vegetables, asparagus, bell peppers, everything you can imagine", food taster Margot Woelk recalled
8aBOb TIL there are over 1 million penguins who live in the Falkland Island minefields because they're too light to set off the mines
jB8p TIL When people are found dead in the wilderness with no outward signs of injury, they check their eardrums, and if they’re not intact, they know that the cause of death was lightning.
rReQd TIL about an Indian art called Shatavadhana, where a person has to remember and answer questions on a stage from 100 people simultaneously while dealing with distractions in a round robin manner. The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random.
VM6A4 TIL, the Roald Dahl museum has letters of correspondence between him and a postman who had the name Willy Wonka, who contacted the author shortly before the release of the original movie.