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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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xVvvb TIL of Fred the Undercover Kitty, a cat who was enlisted by the NYPD to help catch a criminal posing as a veterinarian in 2006. Fred was awarded a Law Enforcement Appreciation Award and a Mayor's Alliance Award for his service.
VWKZ TIL in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States.
9n0M TIL there have been computers programmed in “ternary” instead of the conventional binary. One such computer, built by the Soviets in 1958, had distinct advantages over binary computers such as increased power efficiency, cheaper parts and easier implementation of certain operations.
b9jVE TIL: The person on the 10,000-Yen banknote is Fukuzawa Yukichi, who was among the first Japanese to visit America in 1860, after the end of Japan's isolation period. He became known as one of the foremost experts on Western culture, and the college he founded, Keio University still stands today.
JYp5Q TIL about the Richat Structure of Mauritania. Observable from space and measuring nearly 50 kilometers in diameter (30 miles) it is referred to as the Eye of Africa