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TIL Men in India receive a free gun licence if they get a vasectomy

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Y70YW TIL that on the day Michael Jackson died it was (falsely) reported that Jeff Goldblum had fallen off a cliff and died.
6Q88 TIL that Garret Morgan, the son of former slaves with only an elementary school education, invented a belt fastener for sewing machines, the first human hair straightening solution, an early form of the gas mask (used in WWI), and traffic signal technology (which he sold to GE for $40K in 1923).
e0ZrD TIL The FDA has denounced “antibacterial soap” since regular soap is just as effective at killing dangerous microbes.
4ZrN TIL Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who fled to South America after WW2, would use fake names to fly under the radar. One such name was, “Jose Mengele.”
geQA TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.