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TIL that Nazis ran brothels within concentration camps to motivate prisoners to work more. Over 35k women were forced into forced sex labour.

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OJB1 TIL that a 2013 study found that about 25% of all US senior citizens declare bankruptcy due to medical expenses, and 43% are forced to mortgage or sell their primary residence
vPMMK TIL There have been multiple people who’ve been claimed to be the Messiah
woroM TIL the EU is working on a "Digital Product Passport" so consumers can track where a product comes from, what it's made from, how to repair it and how to dispose of it. This includes clothing, chemicals and electronics.
69DNl TIL that the U.S. planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon in the 1950s to show military strength during the Cold War. Carl Sagan worked on the calculations. It was called Project A119.
0wNy TIL in 1957 Burkhard Heim, a German physicist, theorized a propulsion system that could reach Mars in as little as five hours, and this system is still being researched today.