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TIL, a lieutenant in the Nazi army, Albert Battel, refused to round up Jews and haul them to the Belzec extermination camp. Instead he brought them to a local military barracks for protection. Battel was later discharged in 1944 and settled in West Germany.

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loRXK TIL About the Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people.
XQDE TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the woman was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries of pain, forced her way out of the yard, ran into the road and ‘played dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped, the pig led him to the trailer, he heard the woman and called 911.
X00ZP TIL in 1994, mathematician Peter Shor created a fast way to factor numbers in a quantum computer. The first quantum computer wouldn't be invented until 1998.
mNVp TIL police in Germany hunted a sinister phantom killer for two years after finding the same DNA at 39 different crime scenes - only to discover that the source was a woman who made the cotton buds used to collect the sample!
kJak5 TIL about the Massacre of the Latins, which occurred in Constantinople in 1182. The massacre was a result of the presence of Western merchants, particularly Italians, and various other factors. The Orthodox population killed tens of thousands of Catholics, with 4,000 survivors being sold as slaves.