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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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aJy9 TIL in 1946 50 beavers were introduced to Tierra del Fuego, the island at the southernmost tip of South America, in hopes of fostering a fur trade. No such fur trade developed, but the beavers now number over 100,000 and are causing irreparable damage to Patagonia’s forests
ADQM7 TIL of Rick Rescorla, director of security for Morgan Stanley and tenant of the World Trade Center south tower, helped to evacuate all but 13, including himself, of the company's 2,687 employees before the tower's collapse.
1aYjr TIL when Monkee Michael Nesmith offered his song "Different Drum" for the group, the producers of their TV show, who had control over the material, turned it down, it would go on to be one of the first major hits for singer Linda Ronstadt and her band the Stone Poneys
6EvwQ TIL that during the Irish Potato Famine, the poor were hired for useless construction projects called 'famine follies' in order to provide them with work that would not take existing work away from other workers. These included roads in the middle of nowhere, between two seemingly random points.
R057 TIL Rembrandt was the famous Dutch painter’s first (not last) name