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TIL That the Nazi and "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele's skeleton is used as an educational aid for forensic medicine courses at the University of Sao Paulo's medical school

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vox8 TIL Physicists were able to cool atomic gas below absolute zero at which point it displayed dark-energy like properties and seemingly defied gravity
mdVo TIL the furthest a human being has ever been from Earth was when Apollo 13 passed around the far side of the moon on April 15, 1970. At their furthest point, the crew were 248,655 miles from Earth.
m1pVx TIL that before the California Gold Rush, there was one in North Carolina in 1799! A 12-year-old named Conrad Reed found a 17-pound gold nugget while playing in a creek and used it as a doorstop for three years. When his family realized its value, they started the first gold rush in America!
epaJL TIL how microwaves work
N7ovP TIL In England when Shakespeare was writing, the word 'Nothing' was slang for female genitalia, meaning 'Much Ado About Nothing' is a dirty double entendre.