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TIL There was a real team of Jewish assassins called “The Avengers" who tracked down and executed Nazi war criminals after WWII.

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vPN8D TIL of the Isaaq Genocide. Also known as the "Hargeisa Holocaust", it was the systematic, state-sponsored genocide of Isaaq civilians between 1987 and 1989 by the Somali Democratic Republic, under the dictatorship of Siad Barre, during the Somaliland War of Independence.
9bmG TIL Babies have an innate swimming reflex where they hold their breath and slow their heart rate in water until they are 6 months old.
dDDrr Today I learned there is a confucian war against scientists in China, where the confucians won't allow their human cloning attempts, while groups of neo-taoist and neo-confucians state that there are aspects of tao and confucian that are accomplished via cloning
b64PE TIL that after the American Civil War ended, the Union troops started cheering, but Grant quickly silenced them. He later said, "The Confederates were now our countrymen, and we didn't want to gloat over their downfall."
E1Eao TIL that the show Scrubs has one of the most accurate portrayals of the actual way a hospital runs and all of its medical cases are taken from real life medical cases.