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TIL the day after liberation, a group of 40 prisoners from Buchenwald tracked down one of the escaped guards in a nearby town, brought him back to camp, and made him hang himself

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Oo8M1 TIL that according to one legend, the funeral escort of Genghis Khan killed anyone and anything that crossed their path in order to conceal where he was finally buried. After the tomb was completed, the slaves who built it were massacred, and then the soldiers who killed them were also killed.
graY8 TIL 2 teens secretly scaled the Acropolis on 5/30/41 in Nazi-occupied Greece & stole the Nazi flag that was flying atop it. Their heroic act of defiance inspired Greeks to believe themselves capable of resisting the Nazis & their occupation of Greece. The teens were never caught & died of old age!
jNwZj TIL Japanese, but not European, honeybees can “slow cook” giant hornets to death, when they attack the hive. They do this by forming a giant swarm, a “bee ball”, around the hornet and vibrate their flight muscles to create heat. They warm the area up to 116°F, slowly “cooking” the hornet to death.
OlE1 TIL that Bohemian Grove is a 137 year old secret camp, that Nixon called “the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine”. The camp is private and only open to the rich and powerful men of the world.
W7jMo TIL that a small area of Los Angeles shares Beverly Hills' 90210 zip code. Called Beverly Hills Post Office, the neighborhood's property values benefit from association with the famous city. Don't have any emergencies, though; ambulances get confused by the border.