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TIL Actor Lionel Royce, dismissed in Nazi Germany for being Jewish, retreated to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed his hair with hydrogen peroxide. he returned to stage as a "self-thought peasant actor" and was praised by the Nazi as proof of Aryan superiority

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P19lG TIL of the Arisan Maru, a Japanese "hell ship" that was torpedoed while carrying Allied prisoners of war. None of the 1,781 passengers were killed by the explosion, but other Japanese ships refused to rescue them, resulting in only 9 survivors.
O8dg TIL in the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the source of the Ganges River.
oRJN7 TIL Lignum Vitae is a hard wood that was originally used to make propeller shaft bearings for ships and submarines.
GJM4 TIL that Dexter Holland, the front man of Offspring, is a PhD student helping study how… microRNA sequences can help fight against HIV. And while he was a young grad student at USC, he came up with the phrase “gotta keep ‘em separated” while waiting for two petri dishes to cool off.
78eP7 TIL sucking on your SO's (F) nipples can cause irregularities in periods and is also a method of (extremely unreliable) contraception. Sucking on the nipple releases the hormone prolactin, which causes the brain/body to think there is already an suckling infant and will try to delay the next.