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TIL The Allies worked with the Serbians and Yugoslav partisans to systematically execute Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing Axis nations. Termed “Bleiburg Massacre” and later changed to “repatriation”

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wZNP TIL, because the Russians did such a great job embalming Lenin, the Vietnamese flew Ho Chi Minh’s corpse to Russia once a year for a “refresh.”
7dQx TIL Australia’s 17th Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at beach and was never seen again
j6oJa TIL about Jilly Juice, a fermented cabbage drink which its creator claims can cure cancer.
9Ymxr TIL that a "loose cannon" is an apt name for something out of control: when an 8000 pound cannon came loose from a mooring on a ship, it could wreak terror on the crew as it wiped out anything or person in its path and destroyed the ship's walls
rRROM TIL Germans were persecuted/lynched in America during and prior to WWI