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GA5EQ TIL: There was a planned Führermuseum in Germany that was expected to be completed in 1950 which would be a large art museum intended to be filled with thousands of confiscated artwork from the war. Many artworks intended to be displayed were re-looted when they lost and lost forever.
d8597 TIL: Of Dilsey Pope a woman of colour from Columbus, Georgia, who owned her husband as a slave. During an argument she sold her husband to a neighbour, when she was ready to reconcile he wouldn't sell him back.
QJYba TIL about the Satanic Panic, a late 20th century period of religious paranoia which resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of dozens of individuals.
VBJAk TIL the highest minimum wave in the world is 24CHF ($26.61) per hour in Geneva, Switzerland
Z86Yo TIL that Comedy Central and broadcasters have censored five episodes of South Park due to fears of "getting blown up"