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TIL that Hitler banned IQ testing for being Jewish as did Joseph Stalin for being bourgeois

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rLBy TIL an NYC woman found a plea for help in her Saks 5th Ave shopping bag written by the African teacher who made it in prison in China. A reporter tracked him down. “Maybe this bag could go somewhere and they find this letter and they can let my family know, or anybody, that I am in prison,” he said.
kJArB TIL US President Calvin Coolidge was alarmed at the number of turkeys president's were offered on Thanksgiving. He halted the practice for a short while until 1925 and was then offered a live raccoon 'Rebecca'. He refused to eat her and kept her as a pet at the White House
awO7J TIL in 1920 The New York Times ridiculed the notion of rockets in space, calling it absurd, and criticized rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard as being less educated than a high school student. They issued a retraction in 1969 just days before Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.
LQObp TIL Nicotine isn't only found in the Tobacco plant, it is also found in potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and even eggplants.
jQNj TIL that nematodes (C. elegans) from an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Columbia were found alive in the wreckage of the shuttle disaster in 2003.