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TIL that the Vatican still blamed the Jews for the death of Jesus until 1965.

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RpD6 TIL China returns all illegal immigrants from North Korea which usually imprisons them in a short term facility. Women who are suspected of being impregnated by Chinese fathers are subjected to forced abortions; babies born alive are killed, sometimes by exposure or being buried alive.
eQ6g TIL of Exercise Tiger, the training for D-day that ended with 946 American Deaths when 9 German E-boats showed up during the rehearsal and attacked.
R7Oo1 Today I learned that there are only about 25 blimps in the world and only half of those are operational. This is partly due to high construction and operation costs
mxLYx TIL that Bengal famine of 1943 and that the 2 millions deaths are considered by historians to have been preventable. (This video gives a recap but more info is on wiki)
E1BjV TIL the other man in the balcony with Lincoln the night he was assassinated was so consumed with guilt over not having prevented it that he slowly went mad and eventually stabbed his wife to death and tried to kill his children before he was committed to a mental asylum for the rest of his life.