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TIL Charles Manson was a “Theta Clear” level Scientologist

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DVpj TIL that some homosexual concentration camp prisoners were forced to serve out the remainder of their sentences after liberation and end of WW2
d8r0Q TIL that Polish priest Maximilian Kolbe provided shelter to 2000 Jews during WW2. He was later sent to Auschwitz where he volunteered to sacrifice his life for a stranger.
agvA TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
lolmG TIL that over 1200 bones equaling to 15 bodies, 6 of them children, were found in Benjamin Franklin’s old home in London. Many Historians concluded that it was from an Anatomy School run by Franklin’s protege William Hewson.
KOnB4 TIL that despite Diogenes' notoriety for philosophical stunts, including his exchanges with Plato and Alexander the great, the philosopher has no surviving written works. Considered to be one of the founders of cynicism, Diogenes is said to have written 10 books, 7 tragedies and a volume of letters.