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TIL after the Nazi concentration camps were liberated, homosexuals still weren’t considered victims and were explicitly excluded from reparations.

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p8wpZ TIL "breaker boys" between age 8-12 were employed to work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week to separate impurities from coal. Despite public disapproval, the practice of employing children in this line of work lasted for decades, only finally ending in the US in the 1920s.
6XgW TIL Adolf Hitler was one of the first recorded users of Anabolic Steroids. It was later used on Nazi troops to make them more sexually agressive, muscular and mean fighters.
kJpog TIL that in 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1/2 into space with the Golden Record onboard. It contains music, greetings, and images which NASA cannot display online due to copyright law. NASA sent these images to space to represent humanity but cannot show these images to most humans.
4XlAa TIL there's people in the world that don't rinse the dishes after wash them with detergent.
0wXGp TIL electricity was first installed in the White House in 1891. It was such a new concept that President Benjamin Harrison and his wife both refused to touch light switches due to their fear of electrocution so the White House staff had to follow them around and turn the lights off and on for them