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TIL Tajik is a Persian language written in Cyrillic script

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nrjB TIL that Hitler planned to reduce the “non-German population” in occupied countries by “persuading them that vaccination and the like are really most dangerous”.
R7Yaw TIL that a false surrender is a war crime under Protocol I of the Geneva Convention.
grJA TIL that ⸮ is called a “percontation point” or “Irony mark” and denotes irony or sarcasm.
ANP8B TIL of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime which was accused of spying for the west in East Germany and of being a communist front organization in West Germany.
gM5jW TIL Physicians in the middle ages would drink their patients urine to diagnose medical conditions. They were able to accurately diagnose diabetes because the urine tasted sweet.