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TIL about Miklós Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian inmate at Auschwitz. As a doctor by profession, he had to assist Dr. Mengele in cruel "experiments" and could in return live within a room inside Crematorium II. He survived and never again worked with a scalpel after the war.

KOMl9 TIL one of Martin Luther King Jr's favorite hymns was Mahalia Jackson's rendition of 'How I got over." She sang it at the March on Washington in 1963 and in moments when he felt discouraged, he'd call her just to hear her sing.
69K9m TIL the Charlotte Hornets apologized after giving a child a PS5, only to take it away off camera and exchange it for a jersey. In a statement, the team said the incident was an "on-court skit that missed the mark" and that they would give the child the PS5 and a VIP experience to a future game.
ANA47 TIL a Canadian 12 year old graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science. She also plays basketball, the violin and is a competitive figure skater.
Mew9B TIL of the match at the 1995 French Open between Jana Novatna & Chanda Rubin, in the 3rd set Novotna led 5-0, 40-0, the biggest lead possible in a tennis set, but somehow managed to squander it blowing nine match points and losing the match
691yl TIL John Von Neumann worked on the first atomic bomb and the first computer, came up with the formulas for quantum mechanics, described genetic self-replication before the discovery of DNA, and founded the field of game theory, among other things. He has often been called the smartest man ever.