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TIL during the manhattan project Albert Stevens was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or explicit consent. He survived over 20 years, accumulating a total radiation dose of 64 Sv - the highest known in any human being.

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W7pKN TIL that Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language, had a brother named Paul.
1KdX TIL of Kurt Gerstein, a top SS Officer who secretly tried warning the Allies of the horrors he witnessed at the Nazi Death Camps. He later committed suicide after they failed to listen to him.
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