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TIL of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime which was accused of spying for the west in East Germany and of being a communist front organization in West Germany.

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4e15 TIL that the tallest building in Korea is not in super-booming South Korea, but in North Korea. The RyuGyong Hotel.
J1b1m TIL that absinthe consumption was so prevalent in France, and debilitating, that France's insane asylums more than doubled (57%) their populations in ten years chiefly due to "The Destroyer, "Green Demon," "Green Fiend," "Green Peril, "Green Damnation," "Green Terror."
LkZAV TIL of the Great bison belt. A tract of grassland that ran from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico around 9000 BCE, which allowed the bison to outlive other Ice Age animals and let the animal become the staple food of the Plains Paleo-Indians
N6E6 TIL that a “tramp” is someone who only works when forced to, a “bum” does not work at all, and a “hobo” is a traveling worker.
PYVGG TIL Emmett Till has a memorial that’s been shot up, 3 times and now has a bullet proof one installed