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TIL In the 1800's Germans Distorted Hindu & Buddhist Ideas Which Led to Nazism

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p8Gne TIL that in 1901, a doctor was told mid-surgery that he was needed urgently elsewhere, to which he responded that he could not leave "even for the President of the United States". He was then told he needed to operate on William McKinley, the President of the United States.
6E49l TIL Avocados are toxic to horses; they can cause respiratory distress, heart failure, and death.
Y1Vd TIL that most mermaid “sightings” were most likely manatees, dugongs, or Steller’s sea cows. In fact, Christopher Columbus spotted 3 manatees near the Dominican Republic and would later write that mermaids are “not half as beautiful as they are painted.”
R7Ymw TIL that Elvis and The Beatles played together only once. No video, no recordings, no pictures, and no press.
xWVB TIL that An avenue is traditionally a straight road which emphasize arrival at a landscape or architectural feature and A boulevard is usually a widened, multi-lane arterial street with a median and landscaping between the curbs and sidewalks on either side.