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TIL that during WW2 two polish doctors saved the lives of 8,000 Jews by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis entering their town.

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VMRa8 TIL, Nadezhda Durova (1783-1866), daughter of a Russian Army Officer, disguised herself as a man, serving in a Cavalry Regiment during the Napoleonic Wars. She was the first recorded Female Officer in the Russian army, and was awarded the Cross of St George for bravery under fire.
N7kEP TIL building walls in curves takes less bricks
1aQnO TIL: Mormons/LDS church baptized Hitler, Elvis, Ann Frank, Princess Diana, Pope John Paul II, Ghandi, and others into their religion because their religion knows neither shame nor respect for other persons systems of belief. If you died famous, they’ve done “baptisms for the dead” on you already.
xl1k TIL that a ship abandoned off the coast of Alaska in 1931 was spotted, still adrift in the Arctic, in 1969
gMVX7 TIL about segregation academies, private schools founded in the US after Brown v. BoE to preserve segregation. They persist, segregated to this day, many segregation academies have student bodies that are >84% white in school districts where the student body is as little as <10% white.