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TIL that Irena Sendler and her fellow social service workers smuggled 2500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, effectively saving them from the holocaust.

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OGDg6 TIL that Mexico City is sinking at a rate of up to 50cm a year
b5JN TIL during the evacuation at Dunkirk, The last of the British Army left on 3 June, However, Churchill insisted on coming back for the French, so the Royal Navy returned on 4 June in an attempt to rescue as many as possible of the French rearguard.
loGeK TIL that sailors slept in hammocks, as they stayed well balanced even if the ship was in motion. The Royal Navy formally adopted the sling hammock in 1597 much after Columbus discovered them in the Bahamas. Sailors got so accustomed to hammocks that they even took them back on leave.
X0Jer TIL that a study in 2010 in the UK found that "overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug...with heroin...and crack cocaine" in 2nd & 3rd places.
b6Gja TIL the shortest and tallest players in NBA history played on the same team in 1987-1988.