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TIL that a Brazilian diplomat in Hamburg handed out visas to jews during WWII without identifying them as such, defying the Brazilian policy

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rNEPy TIL that in 1894 the U.S. Army killed 30 American citizens during the Pullman Strike. Union organizer and future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was called "an enemy of the human race" in a New York Times editorial, and imprisoned for mail obstruction.
dObd TIL Bob Ross was missing a finger due to a woodworking accident in his youth. In The Joy of Painting, he hid it by holding his palette in the hand with the missing finger.
9Y0LD TIL that before he died, FDR proposed a "Second Bill of Rights," which included the right to food, housing, clothing, education, medical care, and recreation. He considered this vital to American freedom and security.
JZR1 TIL Linux 4.0’s codename is “Hurr durr I'ma sheep”
5VKyk Today I learned about "Detonography" the art of using explosives to make sculpture.