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TIL of Vedem, a Czech-language magazine produced in 1942 by boys aged 13-16 imprisoned at the Terezín concentration camp. The magazine featured things like poems, drawings, essays, and reviews, and was manually copied and distributed around. Around 800 original Vedem pages survived the war.

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jjdR TIL that while blacks only make up 13% of the US population, they commit over 50% of all murders.
Z5nD TIL that Count Bernadotte, the famous Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from concentration camps during WW2, was murdered in 1948 by militant Zionists (approved by a future Prime Minister) while serving as UN peace mediator in the Holy Land.
lDDV TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
RAL8 TIL: After WWII, the Russians used 17 different dog breeds to create the “supreme military dog” - and it looks like a giant fluffy poodle
4e9w TIL A German teen girl survived a 3km free fall after a plane crash and walked for 2 weeks through the rainforest to be saved by lumbermen, surviving only on a bag of sweets.