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TIL many years before WW2 or even WW1, Germany had a concentration camp on an island off the coast of Namibia.

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VBY78 TIL that there was at least one Kennedy family member in federal elective office from 1947, when John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts, until 2011 when Patrick J. Kennedy II retired as a member of Congress from Rhode Island.
kLEB TIL that only two of the 185 countries in the International Labour Organization do not have laws mandating parental leave- the United States, and Papua New Guinea.
QJVKE TIL dog chew toys called bully sticks marketed as "single-ingredient pizzle" are dried bull penis, and pizzle has been known since at least the 1500's as a type of flogging whip
Mej6V TIL There is a full scale intact replica of Stonehenge in a field near Ingram, Texas.
PDjn TIL in the Catholic sainthood process “the Devil’s advocate”, was a canon lawyer appointed to argue against the canonization of a candidate. They would take a skeptical view of the candidate’s character, look for holes in the evidence, and argue that attributed miracles were fraudulent.