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TIL after sensing a strong rise in Jewish prejudice, Einstein fled Germany a month before Hitler rose to power, avoiding the Holocaust. After reading what ended up happening, Einstein never set foot in Germany again and died in the US in 1955.

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5eAk TIL Left-handed people are often excluded from studies of how the brain works. This means that the results of those studies may not apply to ~10% of the population.
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kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust