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TIL that Nazi Germany had made detailed plans to ship 4 million Jews to Madagascar.

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woG6E TIL Auto Brewery Syndrome is endogenous ethanol fermentation. It’s sometimes called “drunkenness disease.” This rare condition makes you intoxicated/drunk without drinking alcohol.
vPmXB TIL that the first 3D printer was developed in 1971 by Johannes F Gottwald and patented under the name 'the Liquid Metal Recorder'.
6vB7 TIL: When Rialto police began wearing cameras there was an 88% decline in the number of complaints filed against officers, compared with the 12 months before the study. Officers also used force nearly 60 percent less often. Force used was twice as likely to have been by officers not wearing cameras.
78MgX TIL the person who named the 'pacific': Ferdinand Magellan
OG411 TIL there is a rare phenomenon of lightning that strikes from the ground up into the sky