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TIL There were nazi prisoner camps in rural Virginia towards the end of WW2. They were there to, among other things, to pick apples while American Servicemen were fighting in Europe.

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eNgn TIL the oldest person to have ever lived met Vincent Van Gogh and called him “dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable” and “very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick”
X0oek TIL of the Seoul peace market where in the 70’s workers were forced to take meth to work long shifts, and a young man named Jeon Tae-il self immolated to protest the working conditions there
BrbMk TIL about the shrike, also called the "butcher bird" due to its eating habits!
x6BQo TIL that 35,000 tonnes of the steel in the Burj Khalifa was repurposed from the parliament building of the former state of East Germany.
pYZg8 TIL Juul paid one charter school $134,000 to setup a summer camp. The company had also offered other schools $10,000 to obtain the right to talk to students in the classroom and after school.