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TIL that Nazi Germany had 150,000 military of Jewish background, including Generals, Field Marshalls and Admirals.

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b6Y00 TIL the “chain fountain” effect where a chain of beads tumbling out of a jar rises up is also called the “Mould effect” after Steve Mould’s 2013 YouTube video brought widespread public attention to the phenomenon, and Cambridge academics published a paper on it .
7VMP TIL that there is a garden in England devoted entirely to plants that can kill. The creator, the Duchess of Northumberland, felt that people ‘would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be’.
x6bdk TIL that evidence for the effectiveness of dental floss is limited. Several academic reviews have concluded either that flossing is no more effective than tooth brushing alone, or that the evidence in favor of flossing is weak, biased or of low certainty.
Oo06Y TIL Even though North and South America are physically attached, there is no road that connects the two continents.
X04GQ TIL scar ectopic pregnancies can happen in Caesarean section scars and are increasing in incidence