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TIL Hitler praised the “Efficiency” of the American Genocide of Native Americans

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jKdQ TIL: The Soviet Union held it’s own version of the Olympic Games in which anyone could participate. The number of participants one year reached 90 million people.
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XEgZr TIL Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" uses the Sydney (Australia) Crosswalk Alert in its chorus
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v5nK TIL that in 1897, an internal Western Union memo said that “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication”.