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TIL Christianity is actually against boasting about contributing to charity. Jesus personally said that God would never reward someone who only does good in public in order to be ‘seen’ by others.

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wJ4P TIL in 2012 Germany agreed to provide compensation to a new category of Nazi victims — 80,000 Jews who fled ahead of the advancing German army and eventually resettled in the former Soviet Union. As of 2012, Germany has paid $89 billion in compensation overall for Nazi crimes since 1952.
lxr1 TIL that in addition to being a Nobel-winning physicist, Richard Feynman was also a semi-secret artist and was pretty good at drawing strippers.
NjeN TIL squirrels do not use sense of smell to find the hundreds of locations where they stored nuts for winters, instead they rely on spatial memory to remember location of each nut. A feat possible because of significantly larger hippocampus in rodent species.
PY16L TIL that "the Winchester – Shaun of the Dead" received 10,000 votes for a Lego project but Lego decided that "This is the first time we’ve felt that we should turn a LEGO CUUSOO idea down"
OokY TIL In 1899, President McKinley was assured by the director of the US Patent Office that everything that can be invented has already been invented.