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TIL the first extermination camp was created by the Germans to kill Africans in 1904. Had nothing to do with Jews or Nazis.

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9lG6 TIL that a recently published study out of Spain found that THC seems to target and kill some forms of human brain cancer.
4krk6 [TIL] If you stretched an ATOM to the size of a football field, the NUCLEUS would be the size of a pea. The nucleus is extremely tiny yet very dense. It accounts for less than one ten-trillionth of the volume of an atom but about 99.9994% of an atom’s mass.
awX5y TIL: During a disaster, the least wounded patients will make it to the hospital the first, creating what is called "the reverse triage effect" where hospitals will be full of the least critical patients. To counter this hospitals may simply send severe but non-critical patients home.
BrJLW TIL NYC had a higher GDP than Mexico.
GYE81 TIL Koalas sleep 18-22 hours a day due to the daily strain on their system to digest toxic Eucalyptus