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TIL after the defeat of Nazi Germany, German civilians were sometimes forced to tour concentration camps and in some cases to exhume mass graves of Nazi victims.

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1arZX TIL about Eric Money, the only player to score for both teams in an NBA game. The game between the Nets and the 76ers is ordered to be replayed, starting at the 3rd quarter. In between the original and replayed games, Money is traded to the 76ers and scores in the same game for both teams.
WJ5B TIL Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
VBwx8 TIL the song "One", popularized by Three Dog Night, was written by Harry Nilsson. Nilsson wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. The "beep, beep, beep" tone of the busy signal became the opening notes of the song.
41K6 TIL, Senator John Sherman, author of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, said “If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.”
Dymr TIL - Nature is so good at evolving critters that aren’t crabs into crab-like things there’s a term for it: Carcinisation