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TIL In 1944, at Auschwitz, 5 men managed to smuggle in a camera and take 4 photographs of the atrocities occurring. They are the only known photographs of Auschwitz.

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Z1KG TIL that the name of textbook rental company, Chegg, comes from the contraction of chicken and egg, based on the founders’ experience after graduating from college; they could not land a job without experience, but could not get experience without a job, a chicken or the egg type of quandary.
Mxb TIL There is 3G cell service and internet capabilities at the peak of Mt. Everest.
N7WNQ TIL the reason the plural of goose is geese but moose isn’t meese is because ‘moose’ is Native American in origin and so follows different language rules than Germanic words like tooth/teeth, foot/feet and of course goose/geese.
Oo8VL TIL of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, coined by Michael Crichton after discussions with Nobel-Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, which defines the idea that, "I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong."
0wNeM TIL that there is a pub in Austria that has been fully operational since 803. ????????