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TIL that Nikola Tesla, the inventor and engineer, had a photographic memory and could memorize entire books.

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lKp1 TIL a serial killer in Southern California is alleged to have used some flesh from one of his victims in chili he made to for a chili cook-off. He won.
x7Kk TIL of “Feeders of Lice” a job in nazi occupied poland, where individuals were wrapped with lice cages to serve as blood farms and food for disease carrying lice. These cages were used to develop Typhus vaccines.
XEQ96 TIL the oldest and at one point most influential British merchant bank was destroyed in 1995 when an employee made a safe bet that stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange wouldn't drop, one day before the Kobe Earthquake.
JZOk TIL When Peter O'Toole cut the top of his finger off in a boating accident, he dropped the tip of the finger in some brandy before pushing it back into place and wrapping it with a bandage. Removing the bandage weeks later he found he’d put it back the wrong way round
6E6bw TIL that there was a 'British Hitler' in the 20s/30s. Sir Oswald Mosley is a virulent anti-Semitic fascist leader who was on friendly terms with Mussolini. Hitler was a guest of honour at his second wedding that was held in Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' house.