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TIL that a 102-year-old German woman became a doctor 77 years after Nazis banned her dissertation.

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W7XQB TIL about a monument in Kyoto, Japan called Mimizuka (Ear Mound). Known as the city's least mentioned and most often avoided tourist attraction, it contains at least 68,000 noses severed during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598).
M7AaW TIL there is a thunderstorm named Hector that appears every 6 months in the same exact spot.
e0XA5 TIL Bulgaria ended up at war with everyone in 1944 by accident. Bulgaria declared war on Germany due to Soviet pressure, not knowing that the Soviets, tired of waiting, declared war on Bulgaria the same day. By the next day Bulgaria was at war with the USSR, US, UK and Germany all at the same time.
wP9W TIL that bananas are slightly radioactive because of their potassium content and the small amounts of the isotope potassium-40 found in naturally occurring potassium. The banana equivalent dose (B.E.D) of radiation is sometimes used in nuclear communication to compare radiation levels and exposures.
Z6dp TIL that in the state of New Hampshire, defense attorneys are legally entitled to inform juries of their right to return a not guilty verdict even when they believe a defendant is guilty, otherwise known as Jury Nullification