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TIL: “Shrek” means ‘fright’ in Yiddish

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nerDY TIL that on 12th April 1945, for their last performance before the end of WW2, the Berlin Philharmonic performed Wagner's 'Götterdämmerung' - Twilight of the Gods - while the Hitler Youth distributed cyanide pills to the audience so they could kill themselves.
Y9vr TIL of a theory known as “Quantum Immortality”, in which the mind will always transport itself to alternate realities where it survives otherwise fatal events.
rNY54 TIL that Metallica has a scholarship program called Metallica Scholars that has provided $4.1 million in grants to community colleges to support career and technical education programs. \m/
0dprM TIL what grep stands for (“Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print it”)
v1PWB TIL that in 2016 India gave its citizens less than 4 hours notice that their two largest bills (worth about $8 and $16) would no longer be legal tender. They were only allowed to exchange a max of ₹2000-4500 ($31-70) per person per day, and ATMs were still running out of cash up to 5 months later.