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TIL The US had drones during WWII

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ep68D TIL that at one of the WWII death camps the prisoners rose up & killed most of the guards. After about 300 escaped, fear of discovery led officials try to hide their war crimes by ordering that the camp be closed & sold to a forestry service, who planted trees there.
oEWr TIL the last Attorney General to break with POTUS was Elliot Richardson, who resigned after Nixon ordered him to fire the Special Prosecutor of the Watergate scandal
4kgZg TIL: Doctors used to blow tobacco smoke up your butt to cure cold, drowsiness, save people from drowning, headaches, etc. An early example was described in 1686 which describes shoving a pipe in and then repeatedly pumping in smoke. Early critics were worried it made the brain "sooty".
E1pGw TIL while the Apache Wars ended with the surrender of Geronimo in 1886, the last Apache raid into the United States occurred in 1924, and the Mexican Indian Wars continued for another nine years, until the final holdouts were defeated in 1933.
v11lx Here's what happens to your brain when it's surrounded by the noise of nothingness.