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TIL Ewan Mcgregor’s brother was an RAF pilot with the call sign “Obi Two”

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XEygE TIL that doctors have been able to cure methanol poisoning by having the patient just keep drinking beers until the methanol has left their body through urination and respiration
pmKb TIL that 70 scientists working on the Manhattan Project signed a petition calling for a demonstration of the atomic bomb to be held with Japanese officials present. It never reached President Truman.
kJny5 TIL that swing jazz hit Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen was extremely popular both in Nazi Germany and among american nazi collaborators, who were under the impression it was a "Goebbels-approved" tune. That changed quickly when it was discovered to be an Yiddish song by two Jewish composers.
vP1A7 TIL ventriloquists have to carefully script their acts to avoid words with any "f", "v", "b", "p", or "m" sounds. These consonants require the lips to move, which would ruin the act.
x6EQ7 TIL that Arizona authorities recently conspired to deploy Zyklon B (the same hydrogen cyanide agent used to kill hundreds of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners) for executions