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TIL pneumonia has been called “the old man’s friend” because of its tendency to quickly kill off those close to death, ending their suffering.

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nJWG TIL that Jews account for 20% of all Nobel Prize laureates, despite being only 0.2% of the world’s population.
ANkwo TIL of Malthusians. They believe a finite earth can’t sustain mankind’s indefinite expansion unless checked by law, war, famine, or natural disaster
X0kxQ TIL at the start of WWII, allied forces in Dunkirk were cut off and surrounded by German troops and awaiting capture, as there weren't enough naval ships to evacuate them. Within 8 days, a hastily assembled fleet of over 800 civilian ships arrived and evacuated 338,226 troops.
EMnX TIL the word “feminism” was created and first used by … a man. Charles Fourier translated the word into English from French in the 1800s to refer to women’s “emancipation”.
M0Db TIL - In the study involving the 26 engineers, scientists, and others taking Psychedelics the participants actually took Mescaline Not LSD