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TIL that General Eisenhower, horrified by the concentration camps discovered as allied troops rolled into Nazi territory, ordered camera crews to document the grisly scenes. He also forced local government officials to tour the camps. Warning: This video is extremely graphic!

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kKVB TIL that Portobello, Cremini, and Button (White) mushrooms are all different stages of maturity for the same mushroom.
b6ojj TIL about Royce Williams who in 1952 was engaged in a one-man dogfight with seven MiG-15s that lasted 35 minutes.
Ml8W TIL: When Facebook acquired Instagram for about $1 billion, the company had just 13 employees.
Z8AMD TIL that the 1911 obituary of American millionaire Frank Work contained his rant against the arranged marriages of American heiresses to British noblemen for dowry. He thought it should be a 'hanging offence' - the waste of American money paying off private debts in exchange for aristocratic titles.
ev9D TIL a mentally ill woman scribbled her “will” on the back of a grocery list, bequeathing her entire estate (valued at $300,000) to actor Charles Bronson, who she never met. After he accepted, her family filed suit against Bronson and he ended up settling out of court.