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TIL Canadians attempted to build a ship out of ice during WWII.

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a8xWo TIL actress Mary Martin, known for her roles in film and on stage in Peter Pan and The Sound of Music, was the mother of actor Larry Hagman, famous as Dallas's J.R. Ewing and in I Dream of Jeannie
l7YXK TIL that not only does melanin determine skin pigmentation, but it also affects predisposition to Parkinson's Disease and other CNS pathologies, depending on its level of occurrence in the brain as neuromelanin (NM).
D1BlP TIL about Eduard Bloch, Hitler's childhood doctor, and a Jew. When Hitler's mother couldn't afford cancer treatment, Bloch reduced his prices. Teenage Adolf declared undying gratitude, and when Austria was annexed, Hitler kept his word and granted the doctor special protection by the Gestapo.
XE0g8 TIL that the Polish medal for couples who have made it to 50 years of marriage has a higher rank than the medal for deployment to Afghanistan
NDBP TIL The world slut was orginially used to describe a woman who did not keep her room tidy