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TIL PETAs founder, Ingrid Newkirk, believes euthanasia is a gift, a belief which has led to the deaths of thousands of animals

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OoKV6 TIL of Vedem, a Czech-language magazine produced in 1942 by boys aged 13-16 imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp. The magazine featured things like poems, drawings, essays, and reviews, and was manually copied and distributed around. Around 800 original Vedem pages survived the war.
epMOL TIL there was a British sitcom centering on Hitler and Eva living next door to a Jewish couple. The show was canceled after one episode.
GAN64 TIL that E=mc^2 is not the full Einstein's equation and it only works for objects that aren't moving
4kboN TIL that the voice of Yoda in Star Wars is also Miss Piggy from The Muppet Show.
mxKBy TIL MTV's famous "Video Vanguard Award" was renamed in honor of Michael Jackson because he was jealous that the 1989 award had gone to Madonna instead of him.