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TIL Ted Koppel's German Jewish father was invited to England to help the war effort then imprisoned for being German

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DQEWv TIL Researchers in Japan developed a quick and reliable method to put your crying baby back to sleep
oRKrK TIL that smoke detectors need to be replaced every 10 years
R7vgj TIL the Quartering Act of 1765 did not force colonists host British troops in their homes as commonly believed. Rather, it called for construction of barracks, and if no room, housing was extended to “inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine.”
OPg TIL that even if a black hole were to replace our sun, Earth and the other planets would orbit the black hole as they orbit the sun now, not get sucked in.
M7jPW TIL The Mongols single-handedly ended the Abbasid Dynasty by sacking Baghdad on disastrous scale