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l0QA TIL Adolf Hitler liked Rochdale Town Hall so much, he wanted to “ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.”
eKOk TIL that since the 30s the FBI has kept lists of individuals & orgs deemed to be “suspects & potential subversives” who are to be arrested & interned immediately at the outbreak of war. These lists have no judicial oversight & can include people on the basis of hearsay & covert warrantless searches
XELZR TIL of a program where shelter cats are cared for by prison inmates. Cats who formerly were in cages can roam freely in a refurbished prison office where inmates are allowed to care for the cats and learn to craft toys, furniture and even knit hats for the cats.
PYQnE TIL Sogen Kato was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo up until it was discovered he had died at the age of 79 in 1978. His family kept his death secret for his pension. This lead to a huge search for all persons over 100 years. Japan couldn't locate 234,354 supposed centenarians.
a0MN TIL a woman named Irena Sendler worked as a plumber in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII, and saved over 2,500 Jewish children, smuggling many of them out in her tool box. She was also nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize; and lost to Al Gore.