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TIL of an Auschwitz survivor who is searching for his twin on Facebook

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xVQjg TIL: about an open-sourced multiplayer space-station simulation called Space Station 13. Originally developed as an atmospherics simulator in 2003, it was eventually open-sourced in 2006. Contributors have made regular additions for over 15 years.
0wga5 TIL when Lance Armstrong was asked in an interview what he would do if he could go back in time and return to 1995 (the year he started doping), he said that he would "probably do it again."
VDpp TIL of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. He was so badly disfigured that the only way he could be identified was through his ring. Years later, the woman in question admitted that she fabricated parts of her story.
VPl0 TIL 54% of the U.S. Senate Represents 17.8% of the National Population
QRL TIL there is a lake that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.