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TIL that the Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome pretending jews had a highly contagious disease called 'Syndrome K' to keep them safe from Anti-Semitic laws when the Nazis occupied Northern Italy.

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p8No8 TIL that one of the Queen's corgis once mated with her sister's dachshund, creating the "Dorgi".
wLJxW TIL that Bolivia makes a soft drink called 'Coca Colla' which is made with real coca leaf. It is a local competitor of Coca-Cola and Red Bull, but is currently illegal to export under both Bolivian and U.N. drug laws
9Y0lB TIL engineers plan to build a space elevator on the Moon tethered to a counterweight floating in a “Lagrange Point”, a pocket of gravitational equilibrium in our Earth-Moon system. We will sling rockets into space using centrifugal force at the top of the elevator.