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TIL there are 35 types of snowflakes with 121 subtypes and it’s statistically impossible to ever have two identical snowflakes

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JYwL1 TIL in 1940 Soviet secret police executed 22,000 Poles. After the war, Germany was blamed for the massacre and several German servicemen were falsely convicted at Allied trials after forced confessions. The real details of the executions did not come to light until 1989.
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