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TIL a man endured Mengele removing a kidney without anaesthesia and survived Auschwitz because he was the 201st person in line for a 200-person gas chamber.

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PmLJ TIL there’s a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films
5YJan TIL In 1903, the New York Times declared that "flying machines" were essentially a waste of time—only a week before the Wright brothers successfully flew their airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
69Bl7 TIL In 2010, the US Air Force used 1,760 PlayStation 3 consoles to build a supercomputer for the Department of Defense. It was called the Condor Cluster. They used PS3’s because it was more cost-efficient.
EgmW TIL Fall (aka Autumn) is the only season to have two names because the switchover from one to the other happened during the founding of the American colonies
Zpm4R TIL that a chipotle pepper is a jalapeño that has been dried and smoked.