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TODAY I LEARNED...about the German invasion of Western Europe and North Africa in 1940: I feel that this person's video is very educational and informative on the history topic of WW2 and even history in general!

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JYkxQ TIL: Itaconic acid, an enzyme produced by fungi, is used to make Legos. The enzyme is also used in UV coatings and printing ink and some radiation-loving mushrooms were even used to clean up the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan.
0dX6j TIL that Fyodor Dostoevsky was once mock executed and that he processed the event in his novel „The idiot“
pJKG TIL Einstein was married to Elsa Einstein - his first cousin on his mother’s side and second cousin on his father’s side
ly1V TIL Plans were in place to sever all communication w/ Astronauts on the moon if they had been stranded by a technical failure.
0wJXN TIL: The piano Freddie Mercury used to record "Bohemian Rhapsody" is the same one Paul McCartney used on "Hey Jude"