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TIL Nazis performed human experiments on twins, including but not limited to, sewing them together to make conjoined twins.

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wYA8 TIL that the chorus of “Carry On My Wayward Son” is meant to be a conversation between Icarus and his father, Daedalus
nP5r TIL : In 1985 a pool party was thrown for Lifeguards in celebration of a year without drowning, at that party a man drowned.
5Y1Kp TIL during WWII, the Nazis harvested hair from concentration camp inmates and used it to make blankets and socks for U-boat crews. A car company also allegedly used the hair from 40,000 Auschwitz inmates to make textiles. Polish historians claim to have found 1.95 tonnes of the hair-cloth.
MeEl8 TIL about Project Cybersyn, a cybernetics project under Chilean President Salvador Allende in the 1970s attempting to create a socialist computing system that would aid and guide state planning of Chile's state-run economy.
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