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TIL: A Nazi officer who saved many Poles and Jews during WWII was sent to a Soviet labour camp after the war- despite petition- until he died from the torture

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W70AA TIL in Castel Sant'Angelo, Hall of Cupid and Psyche was the bedroom of the apartment built by Pope Paul III Farnese in the 1540s. Here Psyche is the personification of the soul (Psyché means "soul" in Greek) and the tasks she underwent represent the path to spiritual elevation towards salvation.
1Q8d TIL the average British person will spend a year of their life hungover
DQ19j TIL A turkish mother that read lecture notes for four years to her blind daughter in law school, has been awarded an honorary degree with the daughter
ADrPl TIL of Alice Blunden, a woman who was so knocked out after having ingesting a large amount of poppy tea that a doctor pronounced her dead. She was quickly buried, but exhumed when people could hear her voice from the grave. She was so close to death, she was once again accidentally buried alive.
BgXQW TIL that airplanes in WWI and WWII used Synchronization gear to allow guns to shoot through the propeller without destroying it.