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TIL that General Eisenhower ordered every citizen Gotha, Germany to tour the concentration camp Ohrdruf. After the mayor of the town and his wife did so, they went home and hanged themselves (#80)

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n8Y9 TIL There is a Non-Fictional Book About Ebola Zaire, a Deadlier Form of Ebola So Terrifying, Stephen King Was Quoted As Saying “The first chapter of The Hot Zone is one of the most horrifying things I’ve read in my whole life–and then it gets worse"
yDja TIL In 2013 Scientists wired the brains of two rats together and showed that signals from one rat’s brain can help the second rat solve a problem it would otherwise have no clue how to solve.
wLNGY TIL Roger Bowen, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the 1970 film MASH, died one day after the death of McLean Stevenson, who played Lt. Col. Henry Blake in the television adaptation of the film
MlNm TIL that in 1945, 57% the French population thought the Soviet Union contributed the most to the defeat of the Nazis. The same poll in 2004 resulted in 58% thinking America contributed the most.
5V5aB TIL the 2004 earthquake/tsunami caused a 1,500m high ridge along the fault to collapse, generating landslides. One landslide consisted of a single block of rock some 100m high and 2 km long. The momentum of the water also dragged massive slabs of rock, each weighing millions of tons, as far as 10km.