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TIL German soldiers in American POW camps dramatically burned their German uniforms after being shown films of the atrocities of the Holocaust.

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BrpyW TIL a Harvard professor who had worked with Bill Gates called him shortly after he had left to start Microsoft. The professor recalled, "He had moved to Albuquerque... to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: 'Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.'"
PYB1G TIL That the continent of Antarctica was originally going to be called Australia, until the colonial authorities in Sydney took the name for their continent. After that Antarctica had no official name for over 80 years until the 1890s. It was just referred to as the Antarctic Continent.
ADdea TIL: Daddy Long Legs have penises, therefore they are not spiders. Although they are arachnids, they are more closely related to the scorpion.
5Y4rn TIL that the world's brightest cities are in northern latitudes, where the sun shines less, or in arid countries, where hot daytime sun inspires more evening activity. The current top 10: St. Petersburg, Mecca, Chelyabinsk, Kuwait City, Calgary, Edmonton, Kazan, Medina, Helsinki, Tangier
xVNo1 TIL NASA injected mice with moon dust from the apollo missions, including other species.