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VZap TIL As a result of writing ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ Erich Remarque’s sister was beheaded by the Nazis and the bill for her beheading sent to his other sister.
R4pw TIL that in the online dating world, women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.
x6P70 TIL the chromosomal cap, called telomere, grows shorter during cell division. Researchers also found out that most old people have shorter telomeres, that some telomeres had never shortened in those who lived past 100 years old, and that cancer cells don't die because their telomeres don't shorten.
7rvbr TIL: When the Soviets attempted to poison the president of Afganistan in 1979, he unwittingly survived the assassination by drinking Coca Cola, as the acidic drink diluted the poison
m1gGO TIL that the U.S. once accidentally dropped an atomic bomb on North Carolina in 1961, and only one tiny safety switch prevented a nuclear explosion.