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TIL that During WWII, two polish doctors saved 8,000 Jews from the Holocaust by faking a typhus epidemic that stopped the Nazis from entering their town.

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pD0A TIL as Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger delayed telling President Richard Nixon about the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to keep him from interfering
0ZA5 TIL after Fidel Castro’s health was reported to be “almost recovered”, President Bush said, “One day the Lord will take Castro away.” In response, Castro: “Now I understand why I survived Bush’s plans and the plans of other presidents who ordered my assassination: the Lord protected me.”
JY7bQ TIL of ‘Shturmovshchina’—a Russian term for working frantically to meet a deadline after having not done anything for a month.
vPRBr TIL that the Spanish basketball team that won the 2000 special olympics were faking their disability
M7by8 TIL if you fall asleep on a Tarantino set, you will be photographed with a 3-foot dildo named "Big Jerry" next to your face and placed on the wall of shame. If you remove it, it will be enlarged and placed back on the wall. If you remove it again, it will be printed on t-shirts for the entire crew.