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TIL the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was a pioneering facility for sexuality and gender studies which was set back incalculably after the Nazis burned all of their records in 1933.

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xP80 TIL - in 1999 William Shatner sold 65,000 of his priceline shares at $5.50 each. Today, those shares would be worth $63,375,000
lwp1 TIL that a Canadian town is giving away free land. Dalhousie, New Brunswick’s population has dropped by 21% in 15 years, and is giving away parcels valued at up to C$50,000 to “anybody who’s interested — an entrepreneur or business. We’ll give ‘em the property”.
oBL88 TIL that in many American hospitals, you’ll find representatives from No One Should Die Alone (NOSDA), a nonprofit volunteer organization formed in 2002 by a nurse named Sandra Clark. Their founding principle is that no one is born alone, and no one should die alone, either.
1rL7 TIL that in 2008, after becoming fed up with people uploading their videos to YouTube, Monty Python started their own channel, uploading HQ versions of their most popular sketches. The move resulted in a 23,000% increase in DVD sales.
69PZW TIL that four years after the RMS Titanic sunk, its sister ship, the RMS Britannic, also sunk after striking a German mine. Then, in 1918, the RMS Carpathia - known as the the ship that rescued the Titanic’s survivors, also sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine.