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TIL Nikola Tesla was an advocate of sterilising criminal, people with mental problems and believed that by 2100 people who aren’t “desirable parents” shouldn’t be able to breed

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XEnbP TIL The Crypt of the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini church in Rome is decorated with thousands of human skeletons and bones. A placard addressed at those who enter the crypt, reads "What you are now, we once were; what we are now, you shall be."
gbjW TIL Andrew jackson’s opponents called him a jackass, so he adopted the name and used it as his own campaign symbol. It eventually became the symbol for the entire democratic party.
L1Av TIL in South Korea, China, and Japan there is free internet access.
xYx5 TIL that in 2014, Betty White was awarded the Guiness World Record for “Longest TV Career for an Entertainer (Female),” with a 1939 debut.
7rZPO TIL, during the Norway 2011 shootings, an innocent teenager originally from Chechnya, Russia, was arrested and interrogated as a suspect because he did not react with the same level of tears and hysteria as the other survivors.