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TIL on April 1, 2007, Google sent an email to its employees warning that a python was loose in its New York Office. It was not a joke.

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epjw6 TIL that Philippe I, Duke of Orléans was encouraged by his mother to act and dress like a woman. She also called him “my little girl”. He continued dressing and acting like a woman as an adult and was described as “the silliest woman who ever lived". Philippe also openly took male lovers.
xVGG7 TIL after WWII ended, Jewish people were forced to live for months in their concentration camps, in their camp uniforms and poorly insulated buildings, leading a US representative to conclude: "We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them."
yvdv TIL In 2012, scientists were able to teleport photons 89 miles between two Canary Islands.
l7Zd1 TIL that digambara monks don’t wear clothes, don’t bathe or clean their teeth, sleep on the ground, only eat food free of pain, cutting or destruction, pluck all the hair off their head and face by hand, and only walk on well-worn, well-lit paths to avoid stepping on insects.
OoNnL TIL of Operation Nemesis which aimed to take revenge against the people responsible for the Armenian genocide. Seven assassinations were secretly carried out in a span of two years.