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TIL that Bayer Pharmaceuticals used to buy prisoners from Auschwitz for medical testing

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grPRA TIL about the Maine Troop Greeters, a volunteer organisation who have greeted more than a million and a half troops at Bangor International Airport since 1991. No matter the hour, members of all branches of the US military and allies are assured of a handshake, use of a free cell phone and a cookie.
8aLO4 TIL Superman fought the Ku Klux Klan because Stetson Kennedy wanted to expose the Klan after infiltrating them, the authorities weren't interested but the writers of Superman were willing to write it as a new plotline for Superman, which eventually caused the Klan's influence to fizzle out.
Y7W67 TIL that when Victor Hugo died in 1885, some Parisian brothels reportedly closed for a day to mourn his passing.
ANPVl TIL for movie The Reader (2008), the filming of the movie had to be delayed for 2 years so that actor David Kross had turned 18 in order to shoot sex scenes with Kate Winslet.
BmEx TIL Biggie Smalls did not allow his best friend Lil Cease into the studio when he recorded ‘This Time Around’ with Michael Jackson because Big didn’t trust Michael with kids (Cease was 16 at the time)