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TIL about a 16th century book that opens six different ways, revealing six different books in one

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OoZKg TIL that during WW2, nazi Croatia had a concentration camp specifically designed for children. Out of 6,693 children that were forcefully taken there from Serbian, Jewish and Roma parents, 1,152 died in the camp.
6OKY TIL that when the mayor of Fucking, Austria was asked if he would change the town’s name, he replied “everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking—and it’s going to stay Fucking.”
ABGn TIL there is a new type of snail recently discovered named after Steve Irwin named Crikey Irwiny
0wXop TIL the tallest living tree in the world is a redwood, named Hyperion, located in a secret and remote area of the Redwood National and State Parks. Measured at 155.5 m (379.1 ft) tall, it stands taller than Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty!
PVJe TIL Shortly before his death Stanley Kubrick had all the outtakes and deleted scenes from his films destroyed. Burning “thousands of cans” of film so that no one could re-edit his movies.