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TIL that Dr. Sigmund Rascher, who conducted inhuman experiments on concentration camp inmates, was executed at the end of World War II...not for his war crimes, but on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, for "financial irregularities" and other actions which embarrassed Himmler.

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JYyPB TIL: More than half a million people in central China are believed to have become infected with HIV from selling their blood to local government-run blood banks in the mid and late 1990s.
Kv1a TIL An extension cord with two male ends on it is often used to bench test electrical equipment in the industrial field, but is considered so dangerous in other applications, that it is commonly referred to as a “suicide cord.”
KOrma TIL of 2020 CD3, a near-earth asteroid and temporary satellite of earth expected to break free in May 2020
pYNxG TIL On November 27, 1963, Secret Service reenacted the assassination of President Kennedy on Elm Street in Dallas complete with motorcade and onlookers lining both sides of the street
pYJYQ Today I learned that People did not know how many sequels some older book series have. Did you know Oz is 14 books long?