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TIL dark matter could warm certain planets in the place of a sun, allowing life to arise on a sunless planet.

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epMan TIL Conjoined triplets are among the rarest of human malformations, as are asymmetric or parasitic conjoined twins. In addition to some historical descriptions, only three attested clinical cases of symmetric conjoined triplets have been published to date.
oRggL TIL about the Criterion of Embarrassment, a method to access the reliability of the gospels. It suggests if a detail in the gospels would have been embarrassing for the early Christian community to invent, then it is more likely to be true.
P19lG TIL of the Arisan Maru, a Japanese "hell ship" that was torpedoed while carrying Allied prisoners of war. None of the 1,781 passengers were killed by the explosion, but other Japanese ships refused to rescue them, resulting in only 9 survivors.
rNeZw TIL about Arthur Arndt, a German physician whose family became the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Nazi Germany.
dDLP8 TIL that Dr. Leopold Poetsch (or Pötsch), an Austrian history teacher and ardent supporter of Pan-Germanism, influenced Hitler's nationalistic views while teaching him at the Linz high school.