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TIL 17% of Poland's population was killed during WW2

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eJ5J TIL one 18 inch pizza has more pizza than two 12 inch pizzas
9mb7 TIL that above 70 Manhattan Project scientists signed a petition(Szilard Petition) to President Truman to beg that the bomb should not be used on a civilian population in Japan.
Lwe9 TIL German poet “Heinrich Heine” left his entire estate to his wife, but with one condition: she had to remarry “because then there will be at least one man to regret my death.”
Wk5Y4 TIL : Pacemaker was an accidental discovery by Wilson Greatbatch. Working on a heart-rhythm recorder, he mistakenly added an incorrect electronic component, so that the device produced electrical pulses instead of simply recording them.
loNor TIL: "Cloudbusting" was a term coined by psychoanalyst wilhelm reich to describe manipulation of "orgone energy" to change the weather, through a specially designed machine. The term was later used as the subject and title of Katie Bush's single 1985 single, Cloudbusting.