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TIL about 'Wolfskinder' - orphaned German children during WW2 who fled the then East Prussia to Lithuania. They survived hunger, cold and loss of identity. It was estimated that upto 25000 kids were roaming the woods and swamps of these regions after 1945.

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N7WV8 TIL despite what the song American song, "Home, home on the range" says, antelope do not occur in the Americas
oBaRR TIL that during the Vietnam war, tens of thousands of desperate Americans immigrated north to Canada to escape the draft. A political response was never taken, partly because just as many Canadians hopped down south to join the American military.
xVGG7 TIL after WWII ended, Jewish people were forced to live for months in their concentration camps, in their camp uniforms and poorly insulated buildings, leading a US representative to conclude: "We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them."
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Eg9pP TIL about Arthur Whitfield, an English physician and pioneer of dermatology. Whitfield discovered that athlete's foot (tinea pedis) was caused by a fungus infection, and created a treatment for it called "Whitfield's ointment."