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TIL it is illegal under German law to deny the holocaust and is punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

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mxEby TIL Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
oWbW TIL “Wet houses”–permanent supportive housing where formerly homeless, chronic alcoholics are allowed to drink and live–saved Seattle over $4 million in the first year and continually saves lives
e0x1J TIL about Alfred Russel Wallace, a young Welsh explorer who spent 4 years in Brazil, nearly blind after his glasses broke. While returning home the ship caught fire, destroying all his findings. He then went to Malaysia, collecting 127,000 specimens. In 1858 he conceived his own theory of evolution.
lowjV TIL of V Gordon Childe. Considered the most academically influential archaeologist of the 20th Century, Childe feared growing old so much that he threw himself off a cliff at the age of 65.
GYROg TIL that Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters and is known as "Miss Unsinkable."