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TIL when the former commander of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, Kurt Franz, was arrested in 1959 a search of his home yielded a scrapbook with horrific photos of the massacre titled “Beautiful Years.”

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Z9MQ TIL North Korea classifies each of its citizens into one of three groups (called Songbun:) the “core class,” the “wavering class,” and the “hostile class.”
R5N07 TIL of John George Haigh whose crimes made him initially known as the Vampire of London before he was hanged in 1949.
ZpK6B TIL that the creation of google image search was because of a dress Jennifer Lopez wore to the Grammys
7avp TIL a woman was imprisoned for 15 days and deported for allowing her kindergarten class to name a teddy bear Muhammad
wLk5E TIL Issac Wright Jr. served nine years of a life sentence related to drug charges before being exonerated. He studied law feverishly while he was imprisoned, and in 2017 he was sworn in as a licensed attorney and granted admission to the bar of the New Jersey Supreme Court