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TIL The Alps are eroding as quickly as they are growing

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Ryp4 TIL the US Marines forced Saddam Hussein to watch the South Park movie repeatedly. In the movie Saddam is portrayed as Satan’s gay lover just to add insult to injury.
vO5K TIL that on this 150th anniversary week of the Emancipation Proclamation you can listen to the actual voices of emancipated slaves, their first-hand stories recorded in 1930.
BrLDb TIL that one of the last messages ever sent by the Nazis and intercepted by intelligence officials at Bletchley Park in the UK was "British troops entered Cuxhaven at 1400 on 6 May. From now on all radio traffic will cease - wishing you all the best"
VBBMG TIL : The Anthem of the European Union is not the Ode to Joy created by Beethoven but an arrangement by Karrajan with very minimal differences, thus yielding royalties to Karrajan instead of being in the public domain.
Ra84 TIL a Columbine survivor and author who sued and won against big pharmaceuticals for their part in the massacre has been unlawfully locked up in a mental hospital and drugged with the same substances he spoke out against