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TIL water is intrinsically blue.

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N4BM TIL 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII
ZX6G TIL the transgender prisoner in “Orange is the New Black” is played by a transgender woman with an identical twin brother who plays her character in pre-transition flashbacks.
0w4P5 TIL Warren Buffett tried to call the CEO of Bank of America to invest $5 billion after the 2008 financial crisis, only to reach Bank of America's call center where they refused to connect him
jNJEX TIL about a man who took the California State Bar Exam 48 times before he finally passed and transitioned from being his son's law clerk to his son's law partner
vPv7x TIL that Hugo Gutmann, Hitler's commanding officer in WW1 who recommended him for the Iron Cross, was Jewish. He was later granted special exemption from anti-Jewish laws and permitted to emigrate to the US.