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TIL about Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat who negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 other prisoners from a Nazi German concentration camp.

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DQ7Xp TIL Somatoparaphrenia is a condition where a person denies ownership of a part of their body, usually their left arm or leg. They may claim that the limb belongs to someone else, or that it is a foreign object. They may also ignore, reject, or harm their affected limb, or try to get rid of it.
7rZdO TIL that a company knowingly sold dangerous breaker panels that were installed in tons of U.S. homes, including mine. They still cause fires. Check your breaker panel!
AOA7 TIL NASA’s Eagleworks lab is currently running a real warp drive experiment for proof of concept. The location of the facility is the same one that was built for the Apollo moon program
WDP9 TIL that while recording Sex Pistols song Pretty Vacant in 1977, John Lydon emphasized “vacant”’s second syllable - so he could sneak the word ‘ct’ onto TV/radio. 35 years later the song was played in London’s 2012 Olympics opening ceremony – so Britain sneakily said 'ct’ to the entire world.
R7Jg9 TIL that in 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji (????) the Word of the Year.