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TIL Hitler named his personal armoured train 'Amerika' (America) until 1943 when it's name was changed to Brandenburg.

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R5aZl TIL Henry Gray published the first edition of 'Gray's Anatomy', which covered 750 pages and contained 363 figures at the age of 31 years. At the age of 26, he obtained the Astley Cooper prize of three hundred guineas for a dissertation "On the structure and Use of Spleen."
VBkNk TIL that the “n” in 7-ELEVEn is lowercase because the company president’s wife thought the all-caps was too harsh and, with a lowercase letter, the logo looked more graceful.
5VXBn TIL that individuals experiencing food insecurity are more likely to binge eat when food is available
9wPp6 TIL the tendency of teens to be night owls and the elderly to be early birds is an evolutionary safety feature, so at least one person is awake at almost all times
KYKlB TIL there was a french man named Tarrare who had the most unusual eating habits. As a teen he could eat his own weight in meat in a day. Later in life he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats and puppies and swallowed eels whole without chewing. He was underweight.