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TIL that Nazi Germany’s most successful interrogator never used torture to get information; he instead befriended prisoners. He later helped create mosaic art for Disney.

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WdKd TIL that a brain surgeon from Italy suffered a heart attack during an operation, but forced himself to continue after realizing that the patient would not recover if he stopped.
xVK80 TIL that due to English laws regarding cheese, Stilton the cheese cannot be manufactured in the village of Stilton, from where the cheese originally got its recipe and name.
nWvB TIL it may be possible to colonize the three farthest gas giants with floating cities in their atmospheres.
PePZ TIL The most profitable movie of all time is My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with a 6150% return on investment
J1aoV TIL about Charles Mayers a seaman who survived the Halifax explosion. The explosion hurled him several hundred metres in the air and he landed naked on a hill a mile away.