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TIL "Alpha" wolves only exist in captive wolf populations

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R7PaQ TIL about Miklós Nyiszli, a Jewish-Hungarian inmate at Auschwitz. As a doctor by profession, he had to assist Dr. Mengele in cruel "experiments" and could in return live within a room inside Crematorium II. He survived and never again worked with a scalpel after the war.
kOGxB TIL ABBA's costumes were designed by Owe Sandström in close consultation with the bandmembers and ABBA producer Stig Anderson. The only costume Stig was not entirely satisfied with was Agnetha's white stretch jumpsuit in the Mamma Mia clip, as it received more attention than the song
ANljl TIL July 13th is "Jeff Goldblum Day" as officially declared by the Pittsburgh City Council in 2004
j64Kn TIL that an asteroid traveling at 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) per second collided near South Africa 3.26 billion years ago creating a megatsunami that extended to a depth of thousands of meters beneath the surface of the ocean and rose to the height of a skyscraper when it reached the shorelines.
kJAL4 TIL that Yale alumni occupied the presidency and/or vice presidency continuously from 1981 to 2009