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TIL in the 1950s more than 77% of all German government officials and judges were (former) nazis, which is an even higher percentage than during the actual Third Reich itself.

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b6XD4 TIL in Hautefaye, France, on August 16, 1870, local nobleman and city councilmember Alain de Monéys, was lynched by a local crowd mistaking him for a Prussian
o89W TIL that the band, The Rolling Stones, would never have been formed if Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hadn’t accidentally met at a train station in 1961. Richards struck up a conversation with Jagger about the blues records that he was carrying. The connection was instant and the rest is history.
N7156 TIL that Norway had a king during the 8th century named "Eric Bloodaxe." Coins were minted with a sword and inscribed with "Eric Rex."
xV4lB TIL of the Chinese Dzungar Genocide of 1755-1757. Following a rebellion, the Emperor decided to eradicate the Dzungar. Ca 80% of the population was exterminated in what an historian has called "the eighteenth century genocide par excellence." This event brought the Uygur into today's Xinjiang.
p8bpb TIL that the ancient akkadians believed that the clouds were the breast of the goddess antum and rain was her breast milk.