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TIL Norwegian guards working at Nazi prison camps in northern Norway were so brutal that it shocked the German SS soldiers supervising them. The German officers were so unnerved that they removed these guards from active service and others were jailed.

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b9dvZ TIL of the ABC Islands bear, a unique subspecies of grizzly bear found on Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof islands in Southeast Alaska (known as the ABC islands) Isolated from the mainland these bears look similar to grizzlies but have a unique DNA structure that relates them brown and polar bears
b6JaE TIL that the word "shampoo" comes from the Indian word "champu" (hair cleansing and body massage during the daily bath) and was introduced to Britain around 1814 by an Indian businessman named Sake Dean Mahomed and his Irish wife.
R7xl8 TIL Roxette's "It must have been love" was actually released in 1987, as a Christmas song, and when asked to contribute with a song to the soundtrack of "Pretty Woman" they just changed the words "it's a hard Christmas day" into "It's a hard winter's day".
kJrg7 TIL that in 1888, a woman named Bertha Benz became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance when she took her husband's experimental three-wheeled Benz Patent-Motorwagen on a 65-mile journey from Mannheim to Pforzheim in Germany.
N7D5e TIL that South Korea is the second leading consumer of Spam. Spam was introduced in Korea during WWII, and it was "godsend" for people in Korea and Japan who were starving as result of the war. Koreans view Spam as a delicacy and it is a popular gift item for the Lunar New Year.