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TIL that more civilians died in the battle of Stalingrad than the nuclear attacks on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

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5wxp TIL A California dentist, Dr. Mark Anderson, was accused in 2007 of fondling the breasts of twenty-seven patients. Although he claimed that these “chest massages” were an effective treatment for TMJ, Anderson was later convicted of eleven counts of felony sexual battery.
gMbVL TIL Cary Grant, a leading male actor in the Golden Age of Hollywood, dropped acid once a week in his later years - under a therapist's care, to help address past trauma
e0N6E TIL that email tracking is achieved by employing a tiny pixel image attached to your email that is invisible to you, but once you open the email, the image is loaded from a server and the server records that data for the tracking service.
kJ44g TIL that Dr. Leila Alice Daughtry Denmark was America's oldest known practicing physician when she retired in 2001. She was one of the first women pediatricians in Atlanta, and has been seeing patients and advising parents for more than seventy years.
69dRW TIL Bangles' lead singer, Susanna Hoffs was tricked into recording the song "Eternal Flame" while completely naked.