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TIL Hitler commissioned special "Wound Badges of 20 July 1944" to those who were wounded in the failed assassination attempt with him as per the Resistance's Operation Valkyrie. Only 24 people were awarded such medals.

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WnZ9 TIL that an anti-Semitic nobleman once allegedly told Moses Montefiore that he had recently visited Japan, where “they have neither pigs nor Jews.” In response, Montefiore said that they should both go there so that it will have one of each.
4X8a6 TIL in 1986, 12 members of a Florida jury got stuck in the courthouse elevator for 20 minutes. The jurors were hearing a case against the Otis elevator company.
JYlLj TIL: Joshua Bell a famous violinist, in a social experiment, played violin outside a metro station in DC, 1097 passed, only a few of them stopped a little bit. After 45 min, and 6 pieces played, he collected $32. Three days prior to that, he sold out a theater in Boston and the seats average $100.
xPwb TIL A species of snail with a metallic armour of iron has been discovered living on the bases of a hydrothermal vent field in the Indian Ocean. Only living creature to have ax exoskeleton re-enforced with metal.
er56 TIL Sweden stopped classing BDSM as a mental disorder in 2008