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TIL: There is a skyscraper in New York City with no windows

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X0Myr TIL of people of Jewish decent that served in the German Army in WW2. They ranged from Generals who were declared to be Aryans, waffen SS soldiers who hid the fact knowing their fellow soldiers would probably kill them to ordinary soldiers basically hiding from being sent to concentration camps.
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r68y TIL Famed Skeptic James Randi will often swallow entire bottles of “Homeopathic Sleeping Pills” in front of live audiences to prove that they are nothing more than fake pills.