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TIL Brussel Sprouts aren’t the “top” of the plant

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RbK8 TIL Nazi censors wrote to J.R.R. Tolkien, inquiring whether he was of Jewish decent to see if they needed to ban his books in Germany. Tolkien wrote back saying he wished he could be so lucky.
1arAO TIL Guy Fawkes managed to jump from the execution scaffold and break his neck, so he could die instantly rather than face more agony from further torture.
W7QAY TIL that there is a sea on earth with no land barriers - and it even has its own animals.
YpODG TIL of Heinz Drossel, a German soldier who married the first Jew he rescued in WWII; a woman he stopped from committing suicide. Risking execution, he sheltered her in his apartment before giving her money to find a safer place to stay. Heinz went on to rescue more Jews.
lo8XK TIL Scientists Create ‘Revolutionary’ Artificial Womb. The researchers successfully tested the system on fetal lambs, but they hope that the technology can one day be applied to helping save the lives of critically preterm infants.