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TIL Treblinka was mainly used for the murder of Polish Jews, Bełżec was used to murder Jews from Austria and the Sudetenland, and Sobibór was used to murder Jews from France and the Netherlands. Auschwitz-Birkenau was used to murder Jews from almost every other country in Europe.

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k60g TIL HBO programming president Michael Lombardo didn’t understand why fans of Game of Thrones wouldn’t want the show to catch up with the books. He said: “I finally understand fans’ fear—which I didn’t a couple years ago…Let’s all hope and pray that’s not going to be a problem.”
mJOx TIL that at the 1996 Apple World Wide Developer Conference, attendees were given Linux CDs by Apple
Z869B TIL Beauty and the Beast was one of the first feature-length animated films to use CGI, prominently exhibited in the background and sweeping camera of the ballroom sequence. The ballroom's dimensions read 72ft high, 184ft long and 126ft wide, with 28 windows and a dome that measures 86 by 61 feet.
NXLaN TIL that the top secret SOG operators in the Vietnam war had trouble hiding their boot prints on Viet Cong trails, even trying special boots with bare footprint soles. They eventually collected 20,000 pairs of used boots from US combat hospitals and air dropped them to the NVA and Viet Cong.
jAeR TIL that George Washington was, 179 years after his death, permanently made superior to any other five-star general/admiral with the title general of the armies.