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TIL that Sophise Scholl, White Rose member and passive resistance leader, was guillotined, not shot, when she was murdered by the Nazis.

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P14Ge TIL the largest Colombian "narco sub" to be decommissioned since records began in 1993 was seized in the Pacific Ocean in 2023 (3 tons of cocaine were on board). The vessel was about 100 ft long & 10 ft wide. Up to that point, the Colombian navy had seized a total of 228 drug-laden semi-submersibles
6E55m TIL Aeschylus, the ancient Greek tragedian, was killed when an eagle mistaken his bald head for a rock and tried to shatter the shell of a tortoise on it.
m1Kyp TIL The black death caused an inflation of dowries in medieval Florence which the government solved by establishing a public dowry fund: when a girl turned 5, families would deposit on the dowry bank on her behalf, which would accrue about 10% a year and would be withdrawn when she got married
b6LBQ TIL there is a Las Vegas, New Mexico AND that it was where most of the 1984 film Red Dawn was filmed
jNpYE TIL The Nazis staged an exhibition of "Degenerate Art" in 1937 to “educate” the public on the “art of decay.”