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TIL in WWII, Italian doctors made up a disease to save Jews from the Nazis. "Syndrome K" was said to be a deadly, highly contagious, disfiguring disease and the doctors saved at least 20 Jews by quarantining them.

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W7ybB TIL Chile has such a long coast, in part, because they won all of Bolivia's coast and some of Peru's coast in a late-1800s war. This is still a sensitive issue between Chile and Bolivia today.
RLa7 TIL A primary school in East Sussex frustrated with the lack of a dyslexic-friendly sans-serif typeface that taught kids how to write naturally commissioned their own custom font from a London design house. The highly versatile typeface, Castledown, has been nominated for a design of the year award.
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78wPP TIL: The University of Pennsylvania uncovered illustrations with instructions from the 1500s on the use of cats and doves to burn down castles. You strap a sack to the cat, ignite it, and send it to the castle. The plan was part of a manual by artillery master Franz Helm.