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TIL the longest last name in the world was that of a German man whose last name was 40 letters long!

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dD579 TIL the homochirality of biological molecules is exclusively a feature of life on Earth. Extraterrestrial samples contain largely racemic compounds, and common organic syntheses always yield racemic mixtures. It is not known to science why that is the case.
XENvQ TIL that the same person won the Republican and Democratic primaries for California governor in 1946
p8vO TIL that the Sundance Film Festival takes place at the Sundance Resort, which is named after the Sundance Kid, who did time in Sundance Jail in the town of Sundance, Wyoming, which took its name from the Sundance practiced by certain Indian tribes.
6ZJl TIL MTV’s “Clone High” cartoon was cancelled when people in India conducted a massive hunger strike after Googling a Maxim article depicting Gandhi, and coming across the cartoon, which featured Gandhi as a character.
WkBNo TIL - During 'The Night of Long Knives' Chancellor Hitler ordered a series of 85 murders and over 1,000 arrests by his Secret Police and Gestapo against political enemies in the current government. Hitler used the purge to attack or eliminate critics of his new regime.