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TIL that embryos can be frozen for decades before being successfully born!

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rRgEW TIL, when actor Heinrich Schmieder, who in the movie “Downfall” played Hitler’s bodyguard, Oberscharführer Rochus Misch, died in 2004, the real Misch was still alive and would live nine more years
OGMgY TIL about Naura's Civil war, which was started by a wedding guest firing a pistol over a heated debate on dining etiquette
D1Pyp TIL Bayezid II, an Ottoman Sultan that took in displaced Jews from the Spanish Inquisition, reportedly taunted the King of Spain by saying: "You venture to call Ferdinand a wise ruler, he who has impoverished his own country and enriched mine!"
OpxY TIL that during the burning of Washington D.C., in the War of 1812, a tornado formed in the middle of the city and headed toward Capitol Hill killing British soldiers and destroying cannons. After the rains that came with the tornado put out the flames the British decided to leave the city.
OoY9e TIL professionals in psychology and related fields have long looked upon sarcasm negatively, particularly noting that sarcasm tends to be a maladaptive coping mechanism for those with unresolved anger or frustrations.