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TIL Hitler never visited a single concentration camp, nor did he ever talk about the killings taking place.

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kOe97 TIL that Shakuntala Devi, also known as the human computer, gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer(546,372,891) was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
b9G8E TIL that the Oscar-winning screenplay for Sense and Sensibility (1996) was almost lost due a bug on Emma Thompson’s computer. Desperate, she asked her longtime friend Stephen Fry for help, who spent seven hours recovering the script.
574R TIL of a kingdom in the Niger Delta which held no military authority over its citizens whatsoever, believed all violence was an abomonation, and served as a safe haven for all refugees and slaves for a thousand years, all the way up untill 1911.
Z8W0p TIL The first Western abstract artist is considered to be Hilma af Klint, but although she started in 1906, she was only recognised in the 80s. In 1970 her paintings had been offered as a gift to Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art, but they didn't want them.
KYQAw TIL that the closer a mother's second and forth fingers are in length, the more likely it is that she will have sons