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TIL that Nazi scientists tried to reverse-engineer extinct animals through selective breeding, such as the Aurochs and Wisent, as part of their effort to “restore” a primeval Germany.

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Wldd TIL of the “Broken Windows Theory” which states that maintaining and monitoring urban areas to prevent small crimes, such as vandalism, helps to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness - thereby preventing more serious crimes from happening
X0rmr TIL Thomas Jefferson, USA's Third President, developed the first Swivel Chair - and arguably the first modern office chair
0wxgM TIL that Linuk IX, a communist-era housing project in modern Slovakia, is Europe's largest gypsy slum.
M417 TIL a student sent John Lennon a letter stating his teacher was conducting a class analyzing the Beatles’ songs. This act inspired the song “I Am The Walrus,” as the whole purpose of the song, according to John, was to confuse, befuddle, and mess with the Beatles experts.
D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.