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TIL President Eisenhower predicted Holocaust Deniers, so he ordered pictures be taken of concentration camps.

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JJAm TIL In 1999, Lene Hau led a Harvard University team who, by use of a Bose-Einstein condensate, succeeded in slowing a beam of light to about 17 metres per second, and, in 2001, was able to stop a beam completely.
VMpMm TIL The Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, population 220,000, looks over the river at the Chinese city of Heihe, home to almost 2 million. They form a free trade zone where Russians cross into China to go on shopping trips, while Chinese tourists enter Blagoveshchensk daily to take city tours
oBZYE TIL that the Easter Bunny had pagan roots - as Christianity spread, it was common for missionaries to place pagan tradition within the context of their faith and turn pagan festivals into Christian holidays. The word "Easter" even comes from the Eostre festival, which was a pagan celebration.
690b7 TIL of John "Jack's Kirby, goalkeeper for Derby County, who was ordered along with his teammates to give a Nazi salute on their 1934 tour of Germany. He refused.
OoQ57 TIL humans use 100% of their brains and it's only a myth that we're using a smaller percent.