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TIL The Turkish Army formerly issued fines to families of soldiers who committed suicide, demanding them to pay for the bullet that they used, although they abolished that practice under pressure

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Y7VNd TIL one of Nazi physician Johanna Haarer's child-rearing strategies was that newborns should be placed in a separate room from their mother for the first three months of the baby's life, with only strictly regulated breastfeeding visits from her of no longer than 20 minutes during that period.
lb6G TIL the oft quoted statement that there are more people alive now than have ever died is complete fiction. Current estimates put the number of people that have ever died to be ~107 billion
nQoP TIL that more than 85% of Warsaw’s historic centre was reduced to ruins in the second world war; the city was then reconstructed from the 18th century cityscapes of the Venetian painter Bernardo Bellotto
g1P7 TIL that the first civilzation (Sumerians) performed math in units of 60, which is why we measure time in 60 second/minute intervals.
rNN80 TIL in 1880 Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Charles Sumner Tainter created a very early precursor to fiber-optic communications, the Photophone, a device allowed for the transmission of sound on a beam of light.