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TIL Academy Award winners are not allowed to sell their statuette without first offering it to the Academy for $1

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vgyL TIL American pediatrician Saul Krugman deliberately infected thousands of mentally disabled children with Hepatitis B between 1950-1972 to further his research in vaccinology. He was made president of the American Pediatric Society in 1972.
VB05D TIL that, according to Jerome, the Hebrew name of God (יהוה) was sometimes mistaken for the Greek letters πιπι (pipi).
5d08 TIL Ants can survive in a microwave: they find the coolest spot inside and keep still
77vb TIL of Giorgio Perlasca. A meat importer from Padua, Italy. He posed as a Spanish diplomat in Nazi-controlled Hungary in 1944, saving over 5,000 Jews from deportation to the gas chambers. One memorable act saw him stare down Adolph Eichmann who wanted to remove two 12-year-old Jewish children.
vKjr TIL Terrence Howard (COL Rhodey in Iron Man 1) found out he did not get the part in Iron Man 2 from the Press then decided to finish his Chemical Engineering degree and now grows Diamonds