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TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland

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yQd58 TIL that in China there are centres for internet addiction with treatments that can be so rough that some patients have died. Some facilities use electro-shock treatment as part of the cure, and among roughly three hundred such centres in China, there have been seven reported deaths.
VBdNB TIL about Gouverneur Morris. He was a Founding Father who, among many other great achievements, wrote the entire Preamble to the Constitution — including the phrase “We the People of the United States” — and drafted the final version of the Constitution.
Oo8LX TIL of the Lead-Crime hypothesis which states there is a proposed link between childhood exposure to lead and increases in violent crime later in life. The hypothesis argues that the removal of lead additives from motor fuel and the decline in lead exposure explains the reduction in crime after 1990
WBNA TIL Bill Gates’ mother was part of IBM’s board of directors and helped him get the crucial deal to sell DOS which would put Microsoft on the map.
4k1Qa TIL that scientists used to think bismuth was the heaviest non-radioactive element. In 2003, it was discovered to be radioactive; but its half life is a billion times longer than the current age of the universe.