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TIL Alia Shawkat (Maeby from Arrested Development) made a documentary about the strip club her father owns

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1aKv7 TIL about knees that are reversed are caused by muscle issues and is easily curable.
W7RQd TIL Gerhard Domagk’s discovery of the antibacterial properties of Prontosil won him the 1939 Nobel Prize in Medicine but German citizens were forbidden to accept the prize under Hitler. Domagk was forced to reject it by the Gespato before receiving it in 1947 but without the prize money
l7W6a TIL a man who fell overboard while fishing alone was rescued because a father and son found his empty boat and used the GPS to trace where he had fallen overboard
gMX57 TIL That Snoop Dogg tried to rent out the entire country of Lichenstein for a music video, but was rejected
j6VPX TIL Robert Oppenheimer thought highly of physicist Hans Bethe and chose him to head the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos. After the War, Bethe declined to participate in developing thermonuclear weapons as he believed that the world would not be worth preserving after a war with such weapons