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TIL that Hitler had absolutely no reason to declare war on the USA

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9aG7 TIL that it was common for prisoners in the Soviet Union to tattoo Marx, Lenin, and Engles over their vital organs, because the firing squads could not shoot images of the USSR’s founding fathers.
4Rg6 TIL China killed at least 800,000 of its own citizens when it purposefully opened dikes to flood the Yellow River.
XEa7r TIL about the scandal involving "Tri-State Crematory" in Georgia. In 2002, it was revealed that the owner would just dump the corpses all over his ranch instead of cremating them. Investigators found over 300 decomposing bodies on his property.
QkMX TIL that Boston has fewer people today than it did in 1910.
4X9nb TIL There was a mysterious culture in Eastern Europe between 5,500 to 2,700 BC which constructed sophisticated, organized, densely-populated settlements - only to burn them to the ground every 60-80 years to rebuild the same settlement as before