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TIL all German students are required to visit old concentration camps as part of their education.

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0DRv TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
jk9X TIL Captain America was first published a year prior to Pearl Harbor, when there was still strong isolationist opposition to America becoming involved in World War II
7WOP TIL that after leaving office, Lyndon Johnson’s Oval Office desk was taken to his museum, and once in a while, he would sit at the desk to “surprise unsuspecting museum visitors.”
yQrDV TIL British imperialist Cecil Rhodes advocated for a secret society that would bring the entire world under British rule.
R5gja TIL The Slow Loris is the only venomous primate. When threatened, they lick a gland on their inner elbow that, when mixed with their own saliva, creates a toxic compound known to cause muscle convulsions, heart and respiratory problems, unconsciousness, and even death through anaphylaxis shock.