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TIL about Oradour-sur-Glane, a village in France where the SS massacred its 642 inhabitants—men, women, and children. It stands today as a memorial to the victims

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VMrPp TIL that the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, was named in honour of a potential visit by Czar Nicholas, was designed to be higher than the one at the Czar's palace at Peterhof, and reportedly reached a height of 300ft through a gravity fed design.
vr98 TIL “Growing the beard” is the polar opposite of “Jumping the shark” and describes the moment a TV Series became awesome.
8pBP TIL the last two speakers of an indigenous language in Mexico refuse to converse with each other because they don’t get along
R5KG7 TIL the last person collecting a pension from the American Civil War died in 2020.
AN1Jg TIL Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name