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TIL that a member of the Nazi party is buried on the slope of the holy Mt. Zion in Jerusalem. Oskar Schindler is credited with saving over a thousand lives in his factories during the Holocaust.

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E14nX TIL George H.W. Bush ordered emergency airlifts of food and supplies to Somalia in 1992.“Operation Restore Hope,” to help the starving country by protecting food shipments from the warlords. By helping to end the famine, American forces saved around 100,000 lives
R5j06 TIL: Kevin Costner grew up in Compton - a historically crime-ridden city within Los Angeles County
9VrG TIL that Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera when his three year old daughter asked him why she couldn’t see a photo he had taken of her right away.
Oo8vY TIL Brad Pitt became persona non grata (a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country's government), in the People's Republic of China after he appeared in the 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet.
xVROo TIL there are trees in Japan that survived the Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic bombings, one was only 740 meters from the hypocenter that completely destroyed the castle upon whose grounds it grew.