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TIL when you remember a past event you are actually remembering the last time you remembered it, but not the actual event

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ejxL TIL that during a revolt at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, a member of the SS was stabbed, then burned alive in a crematorium oven
0nd1 TIL that subscribers with female names to pay online pornography sites are flagged as likely sources of credit-card fraud, because “so many of these charges result in an angry wife or mother demanding a refund for the misuse of her card”.
lonoA TIL Princess Olga of Kiev (a saint in the Catholic Church) was courted by the same tribe that killed her husband & proceeded to bury the tribe's suiters alive, burned the tribe's best warriors alive, slaughtered around 5,000 tribesmen during a celebration and burned their capital to the ground.
0wBP5 TIL the first person to be awarded two congressional medals of honor was the younger brother of General Custer who died alongside his more famous older brother. He was awarded the medals for heroic actions during the civil war in less than a week.
8M6b TIL the Polish government awards a “Medal for Long Marital Life” to couples married longer than 50 years who had at least one child, either their own or adopted.