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Today I learned that American company, IBM, provided the technology which was used to help transport millions of people to their doom in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka

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rR00o TIL that the the inside of a kangaroos pouch is not a simple skin pouch, but actually leads directly to their bones and organs.
nex7r TIL Chris Brown is banned from entering Australia, the UK and New Zealand due to his criminal activity
bNkp TIL Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi who was considered to be the most powerful woman of the classical world, has had almost nothing recorded about her process because authors from the period treated it as common knowledge with no need to explain.