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TIL that the Nazi Party's identity politics led them to marginalizing Einstein's quantum physics as "Jewish Physics", which ironically prevented Nazi Germany from pursuing an effective nuclear weapons program.

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NXZle TIL HBO cancelled Game of Thrones spin-off Bloodmoon in 2019 after spending $30 million on its pilot. HBO's content chief explained that it was a hard project because George RR Martin had only written about 8 lines of text for the era the show was set in, so a lot more invention was required.
ApN7 TIL that in during WWII, Cambridge professor Alfie Maddock was working late into the night, and spilled the UK’s entire supply of plutonium, 10mg, onto a wooden table. He cut a hole in the table, burned it, and managed to recover 9.5mg of it from the ashes.
B7XW TIL that there is an entire industry to help students cheat to get their degrees by having papers written by unemployed professors. If my students are using it, they don’t get caught for plagiarism because the papers are new. The company blames “the academic system” for being corruptable.
QJyJE TIL that during WWII, American soldiers fighting in the pacific would often mutilate Japanese soldiers and keep their limbs as souvenirs or war trophies. President Roosevelt was even gifted a letter opener made from the arm of Japanese soldier.
ZpAlo TIL in Canada, December 6th is known as White Ribbon Day. It is the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which armed student Marc Lépine murdered 14 female engineering students and injured 14 other people.