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TIL A man in Atlanta confounded doctors and specialists for over a year with a condition which did not respond to any therapies. After he mentioned that he played clarinet in a Dixieland jazz band, researchers examined his instrument and discovered Exophiala fungus inside his mouthpiece

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J0vm TIL the Resistance in Amsterdam attacked the population register, which identified religilous belief, with a fire bomb in 1943 to stop the Nazis using it for their extermination program. Fire fighters took as much time as possible to arrive and drowned unburnt parts in water, destroying even more.
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VBEM8 TIL King Philip IV of France expelled the Jewish people from his kingdom only for his son, Louis X to later ask them to return when the loss of many tradesmen and educated men hurt the kingdom's economy. Seven years later Charles IV would once again expel the Jewish people.