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TIL That Jews put god on trial during the holocaust, and found him guilty

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691k7 TIL that despite Rupert Murdoch's large media attention, media billionaire David Thomson, who owns all of Reuters, is over three times as wealthy ($61B). Despite this, he's only given a single substantive interview, ever.
d806r TIL In a 1945 interview with The New York Times, Alexander Fleming, who won a Nobel Prize that year for his discovery of pencillin, warned that misuse of the drug could result in selection for resistant bacteria. True to this prediction, resistance began to emerge within 10 years.
gJW4 TIL Unisex names are illegal in Iceland
jN0mM TIL that the WWF'S Iron Sheik, whose shtick was to be pro Iranian and very anti-American (usually alongside Nikolai Volkoff in the 80s), had previously been an assistant coach on the U.S. National Wrestling Team during the Olympics.
Exn7 TIL the ’@’ symbol is sometimes used in Spanish & Portuguese to replace ‘o’ or 'a’ to create gender-neutral spellings. e.g., instead of “Los niños, las niñas,” use “l@s niñ@s.”