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TIL that the Nazis also killed ~1.8 million residents of Poland who were not Jewish, because they considered them racially inferior.

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9n6B TIL: Traditional circus clowns are derived from Irish Stereotypes. Bushy red hair, white skin, gin-blossom nose, Drunken behavior, patched clothing.
VMGrG TIL that the Micronesian island of Yap is known for its stone money, known as Rai. They use large doughnut-shaped, carved disks of calcite, some as large as 13 ft in diameter. The Rai is still used today for social transactions, including marrage, political deals, etc.
dDDLd TIL that during the American Civil War, the Union regularly cracked the Confederacy's coded messages because the Confederacy relied on a limited number of key phrases for encrypting their messages, one of which was "Complete Victory".
X0468 TIL Earth’s moon is the closest moon to the sun
1aRv8 TIL that British doctors performed a covert study of the length of time chocolates last on nurses' stations in hospitals, published in the British Medical Journal. They found that the 'decay rate' of the chocolates follows an exponential decay pattern with a half-life of 99 minutes.