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TIL that during a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, an SS guard was burned alive by prisoners in a crematorium oven

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eabn TIL the last cipher from the Zodiac Killer, a 340 character code sent to newspapers in 1969, remains unsolved.
rR1a1 TIL in 1965, 4 CIA employees were fired because they started a “free-for-all food fight in the cafeteria.”
X0oak TIL that Joe Jackson would hit his kids with belts, cords of electric kettles or anything he could reach. Michael Jackson recalled that he was too fast for his father to catch most of the time, but when he did "...it was bad. He would throw you and hit you as hard as he can"
eeD5 TIL that Rod Serling, the creator of The Twilight Zone, saw his friend get decapitated by a supply drop in World War 2. This event would give him inspiration in many of his scripts and stories.
Ooe6a TIL the CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception, written by a magician, included instructions such as signaling other spies by tying their shoelaces a particular way