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TIL the world’s quietest room is in Microsoft’s headquarters.

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Brjje TIL that the US Army has historical protocols associated with using a sword to cut cake. Traditionally, the oldest and youngest soldiers are chosen to cut the cake in some ceremonies as a way of linking the past with the future.Swords dating from the Revolutionary War are often used at such events.
DBnv TIL Royal eunuchs in Korea were castrated by applying human feces to the testicles, and having a dog bite them off.
ydRa TIL Nazi Germany had their very own nazi-themed board games for propaganda
Z8ONR TIL that Dory from "Finding Nemo" is deemed one of the most neuropsychologically accurate movie portrayals of an amnesic syndrome and the considerable memory difficulties faced daily by people with it
7LXX TIL of Brryan Jackson. He was purposely injected with HIV-tainted blood when he was 11 months old, by his own father. He developed AIDS by the age of 5 and death seemed certain. Today, he is over 20 years old and the virus has been undetectable in his blood for over five years.