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TIL that Louisiana is an observer state of the Francophonie

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1aaY7 TIL that a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-II successfully took four pictures of the death camp in action that were smuggled out of the camp by the Polish resistance in a toothpaste tube #1-2 cremation of corpses in a fire pit from the chamber #3 naked women before they enter the chamber #4 miss-aimed
LkRP9 TIL in 1984 Thomas Cavanaugh, an aerospace engineer. Was sentenced to life in prison for stealing classified documents about the B-2 stealth bomber and trying to sell them to the Soviet Union for only $25,000.
b6OZ4 TIL Lacrosse descends from a version played by Native Americans in the 17th century. Games could last several days with as many as 1,000 players per team, on a field with goals up to 6 miles apart. Sticks were so treasured, players were often buried with them upon death.
a1J9 TIL the HIV/AIDS conspiracy theory in which the disease was manufactured by the US government, was actually a KGB misinformation campaign, Operation INFEKTION
jkeN TIL Jimmy Carter is the only U.S. president to have lived in housing subsidized for the poor.