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TIL of “Reichstag fire”, a term used to denote a calamitous event staged by a political movement, orchestrated in a way that casts blame on their opponents, causing the opponents to be viewed with suspicion by the public. The Reichstag fire was seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.

e00O6 TIL all the crown princes of Europe married commoners
GA4bg TIL GPT as in ChatGPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer”
OJZX TIL a graduate student invented a leaf made of silk that produces oxygen.
vGY7 TIL If a dead whale is found on a British beach, the head belongs to the king and the tail to the queen.
pYGk4 TIL Horse v. human marathons are a thing, and sometimes humans win.