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TIL during World War II, Polish doctors Stanislaw Matulewicz and Eugeniusz Lazowski infected Jews with a microbe Proteus OX19, which exhibits symptoms of typhus, which lead Nazi doctors to quarantine and stop deportations in fear of infecting Nazi troops, thus saving thousands of lives.

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M9xB TIL The Chewbacca defense isn’t just a South Park episode. It is a real legal strategy.
W7Z9A TIL Natsume Sōseki was robotically revived as an android by Nishogakusha university in Tokyo and voiced by his grandson Fusanosuke Natsume in 2016 to revive interest in this amazing modern Japanese author.
X0EDj TIL that Tibetans underwent the fastest genetic change ever observed in humans. Biologists found 30+ genes with DNA mutations more prevalent in Tibetans than their predecessors, the Han Chinese, half of which help the body regulate oxygen use. They even have a "super-athlete gene" called EPAS1.
bme4 TIL Adolf Hitler had a Jewish doctor that didn’t charge the Hitler family money during their finical hardship. During the Holocaust, Hitler labelled the doctor, Eduard Bloch, a ‘noble Jew’ and made sure that no harm came to the doctor.
dD0JQ TIL there are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the observable universe. The exact number of possible iterations is estimated to be around 10^120, while the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe is around 10^80