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TIL in 1943 300 extermination camp prisoners escaped after assassinating over 12 SS officers

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LQ6Qr TIL that a blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.
gMZr7 TIL About 2 guys, who, without proper permits, equipment and no food and money, climbed Mt. Everest, and then paraglided and kayaked into the Indian Ocean in one trip
E1Zjp TIL between 1990 and 2007, robots took the jobs of an estimated 670,000 US workers.
l7oj5 TIL about Narcocorridos or drug songs commissioned by drug cartels to sing about the illegal drug business
VWxZ TIL Susan B. Anthony once said that the invention of the modern bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” and called it the “freedom machine”