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TIL that despite eyewitnesses and public outrage, no one was ever charged for the 1946 Moore’s Ford lynching — the case stayed sealed for over 70 years.

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ELaV TIL that during the filming of Schindler’s List, a Polish woman who encountered Ralph Fiennes dressed in his Nazi uniform told him that “the Germans were charming people. They didn’t kill anybody who didn’t deserve it.”
VoyD TIL The Japanese are descendants of ancient Koreans
6dRY TIL Napoleon liked the painting of Mona Lisa so much that he had it placed on his bedroom walls for several years before returning it to the Louvre.
kJPL1 TIL that in October of 2008, Porsche inflicted the “mother of all short squeezes” on Volkswagen (VW) by announcing how much stock it had “after it became clear that there are by far more short positions in the market than expected".
781Ob TIL that in 2013, police divers in Custer County Oklahoma, found 6 bodies in two vehicles at the bottom of Foss lake. Three bodies in each car were identified as people who went missing in 1969 and 1970. Both cars were found to have gone off the road and into the lake. Ending a 45 year mystery.