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TIL Academy award winner Sir Ben Kingsley real name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji

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QNLB6 TIL, after the death of 27-year-old physicist Henry Moseley at Gallipoli (WWI, 1915), the British Government placed a ban on other scientists of repute serving in front-line roles. Ernest Rutherford believed that Moseley's work would have earned him the Nobel Prize.
yOme TIL during Prohibition, the U.S. government poisoned alcohol, killing as many as 10,000 people
dDk7E TIL: Fallopian Tubes and Ovaries are NOT directly connected in humans and have a gap between them
6978 TIL A university in Pennsylvania sells the Plan B pill in a vending machine.
LQwyp TIL 84,070 T-34s were built between 1940 and 1945 (35,120 with 76 mm guns, 48,950 as T-34-85s), making it most-produced tank of WW2 & the 2nd most-produced tank of all time. Despite its resilience, some 44,900 were lost or damaged in combat—the highest loss count of any tank.