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TIL that the man that was not saluting to Hitler in the famous photograph was August Landmesser. After imprisonment, a failed attempt of fleeing to Denmark with his family, his Jewish wife dying in the Holocaust, he was drafted into a penal battalion where he was killed in action.

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6177 TIL that Indonesian President Sukarno ordered a Christian Architect to build the largest Mosque in the country. He also ordered it to be build next to a Cathedral and a Church as a symbol of the nation religious harmony and tolerance. (Indonesia has the world largest Muslim population)
a8wJ0 TIL that when naturalist Robert Plot discovered the first dinosaur fossils in 1677, he believed they belonged to giant humans that roamed the earth years ago. It wasn’t until 1824 when Oxford professor William Buckland concluded that the fossils belonged to an extinct lizard, the “Megalosaurus.”
9wnvr TIL uppercase and lowercase letters are called that because back when people printed using metal letters, ink, and a brush, to keep the letters organized, the big letters were stored in the “upper” compartments and the little ones were in the “lower” compartments
QJDQ6 TIL Bees are calmed by lavender which prevents getting stung while working in the garden. It also improves their memory over the bee's lifespan. Science hopes to apply these findings to humans suffering with dementia.
kAn4 TIL that North Korea’s national animal is the Chollima, which is a mystical winged flying horse.