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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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1a98P TIL Christopher Columbus hanged, burned, or cut the hands off of hundreds of thousands of Caribbean natives for their failure to bring him a bell full of gold on an island with little to no gold. Thousands committed suicide to avoid his punishments.
bWwp TIL that the Church of Scientology created WhoIsPaulHaggis.com to besmirch him (and many others) after leaving the church.
MeKe0 TIL of Alcuin. An English scholar who taught Charlemagne the remnants of Latin culture left in Britain. He also convinced Charles to stop forced baptisms, writing "We must appeal to the conscience, not compel it by violence. You can force people to be baptised, but you cannot force them to believe."
6ELGY TIL when The Cure's Robert Smith interviewed David Bowie, his started by asserting: ‘We can both agree you’ve never done anything good since 1982.’
N7mM1 TIL the Voyager I and II space probes, which are currently racing through interstellar space, each include a golden record with 115 analog-encoded photographs, greetings in 55 languages, a 12-minute montage of sounds on Earth and 90 minutes of music (including Chuck Berry's 'Johnny B. Good')