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TIL dice predate recorded history

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5YdAQ TIL that the chemist whose research department invented the gas used to kill jews in concentration camps was not only a jew but also won the nobel peace prize for his prior work of extracting nitrogen from air, allowing us to feed billions.
Qd5e TIL that the clearest body of freshwater known in the world is “The blue lake” or “Rotomairewhenua” in New Zealand
9pe6 TIL starving to death can be ‘peaceful’ and 'euphoric’
naK9 TIL There is a voice disorder where a person continues to speak like an adolescent after puberty
Y7jbP TIL that while the filming budget for the movie Easy Rider was only around 400,000 dollars, an additional million had to be spent for the licensed music tracks.