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TIL that Scientology is considered a commercial enterprise in Switzerland.

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n1Vr TIL that comparatively little is known about Bełżec, a Nazi extermination camp at which ~0.5 million people died, because evidence of the camp’s existence was almost entirely erased before the war’s end and only 2 survivors were able to give testimony.
M7BQV TIL about Operation Condor - an American and French funded right-wing terror operation that resulted in coups against and assassination and torture of left-wing sympathizers in South America between 1975 to 1983
web8 TIL that there is a verse in Dante’s Inferno that has no translation and no one knows what it means.
LkGlv TIL Liza Hamilton (real life grandmother of John Steinbeck and basis for the "East of Eden" character) died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
GAYp5 TIL the “Father of Soft Play” and inventor of the ball pit, Eric McMilan, was inspired to create safe play areas because he grew up in post-WW2 England, playing in rubble.