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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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grn0W TIL Spain’s intellectual disabled mens basketball team that won 2000 Paralympic gold was found to be faking their disabilities, got charged with fraud, and got the entire intellectual disabled basketball category removed from the Paralympics
p8rDN TIL that Cheez-Its aren’t squares. They’re 26 by 24 mm (1.0 by 0.95 inch).
M97A TIL A group of Soviet prisoners were able to revolt and seize control of their gulag for 40 days
dDyKE TIL that in 1016 Edmund Ironside, King of the English, was assassinated while on the toilet by an assassin who hid inside the toilet.
8arEG TIL: Some groups in Thailand train monkeys to collect coconuts sold internationally as the job is dangerous and difficult for ill-equipped humans. The practice has raised ethical concerns.