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NOXQ TIL of Cardinal von Galen, one of the first public figures to stand up to Hitler. For opposing the killing of the disabled, Hitler planned to kill him after the War.
rR9VM TIL Bill Darden (the founder of Red Lobster) opened his first restaurant, a luncheonette called The Green Frog in Wayward, Georgia at 19 in 1938. He refused to segregate customers by race. Segregation was a state law in 30’s Georgia.
mx6ZY TIL there are more than 200 million insects for each human on the planet. In other words, the world holds 300 pounds of insects for every pound of humans.
Z8kjD TIL the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was a pioneering facility for sexuality and gender studies which was set back incalculably after the Nazis burned all of their records in 1933.
Y7Y0d TIL Charles Lockwood was a high-level executive for Roberts Finance in Argentina who was kidnapped in 1973 by a militia & held prisoner for 54 days before being ransomed for $1m. Roughly 2 yrs later the militia kidnapped him again but this time he was ransomed for $10m. He left Argentina after that.