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TIL that Mother Teresa did not work to alleviate poverty, lied to donors about how contributions were spent, allowed the sick to suffer as she believed suffering was a gift from god, but opted for advanced heart treatment for herself.

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5YEJ9 TIL the word ancient Egyptians used for solving mathematical problems that involved finding unknown quantities was "Aha".
VMYNk TIL the church of scientology maintains a facility known as “The Hole” where at least 100 of the church’s members have been confined for months and even years. Guarded by “pursuit teams”, razor wire, motion sensors, and spikes, it’s described by ex-members as comparable to a North Korean death camp.
aMNL TIL that in 1763, a vigilante group, the Paxton Boys, massacred the Conestoga indian tribe, near Lancaster Pennsylvania. The few native american survivors were put in jail as protective custody, the jail was broken into and the indians were slaughtered.
p8Xdp TIL Over 100 bronze Roman dodecahedrons "from the 2nd to 4th centuries AD" have been unearthed over the past three centuries. No written sources from the period mention these objects, and scholars continue to speculate about their mysterious purpose.
bZ9p TIL German actor Conrad Veidt (“Casablanca”, “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, and inspiration for The Joker) was so anti-Nazi that Hitler ordered him assassinated. He managed to escape Germany and make his way to Hollywood. Once there, he was quickly typecast as a Nazi.