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TIL that the skeletal remains of Josef Mengele are being used to teach forensics to medical students

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bRkZ TIL that the Hippocratic Oath calls for doctors to teach the offspring of their teachers the art of medicine, free of charge.
LkmO9 TIL that Canada signed the wrong line on the Japanese instrument of surrender at the end of WW2
5YD9n TIL about autological words ("English", "parasyllabic", "unhyphenated") which describe themselves, and heterological words ("long", "hyphenated", "monosyllabic") which do not describe themselves. "Heterological" itself cannot logically be autological or heterological: The "Grelling–Nelson Paradox"
b6L4 TIL that Martin Luther wrote a 65,000 word antisemitic treatise called “On the Jews and Their Lies,” which states that Jews are “full of the devil’s feces…which they wallow in like swine,” and that their synagogue is “an incorrigible whore and an evil slut.”
R7Gx6 TIL that a pizza delivery man was arrested on the charge of possession of child pornography but was freed when Lupe Fuentes showed up in court and proved that she was 19 when she made the movie that the man had purchased.