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TIL of Jennifer Teege, a half-black woman that didn’t learn until she was 38 that her grandfather had been Amon Göth, the sadistic Nazi concentration camp commandant dramatized in Schindler’s List

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8MeP TIL Bayer lost the rights to the brand names “Heroin” and “Aspirin” as punishment for German involvement in WWI. As a result they are now generalized terms.
7JGO TIL Napoleon demanded a method of communication that would not require light or sound. ‘Night Writing’ was developed as a tactile military code, but proved too difficult for Napoleon’s troops to learn and was rejected. Night writing became the basis for braille.
QJO6d TIL Elvis Presley Never Wrote Any of His Own Songs despite being one of the most recognizable musicians of all time.
jJjN TIL that Martin Luther, who started the Protestant Reformation issued a “final warning” against the Jews shortly prior to his death, “If they could kill us all, they would gladly do it.”
wLlkM TIL that 1 to 5 percent of children are afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - in some Native American reservations it is 1 in 4