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

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aw9wZ TIL of Johan de Witt, a Dutch Prime Minister who became so unpopular that a bunch of rioters lynched and partially ate him in 1672. They were never prosecuted.
R5oj7 TIL about the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka. It was a rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft. Although extremely fast, the very short range of the Ohka meant that it had to be carried into action as a parasite aircraft by a much larger bomber
kgx5 TIL bodybuilding was banned in China in 1953.
GYJG1 TIL Lisa Nowak operated the robotic arm on the International Space Station and also became the first astronaut ever to be arrested. She is remembered for wearing maximum-absorption garments—government-issued astronaut diapers—during her 950-mile drive from Houston to Orlando
4XO6a TIL As of 2016, Marie Curie is the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in two different scientific disciplines; Physics and Chemistry.