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TIL of the Dachau trials in Slovenia, where by show trials the communist regime accused 31 survivors of the Dachau concentration camp that they survived it because they were Nazi spies and worked with western powers against socialism. 10 were executed, 20 were sent to a forced labour camp

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R745w TIL Tim Wong made the first and only successful attempt at singlehandedly repopulating the extremely rare pipevine swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In seven years, he cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (sole food source) and donates thousands of caterpillars to the Botanical Gardens.
8a9MZ TIL The Blue Hole is a 120-metre-deep sinkhole, five miles north of Dahab, Egypt. Its nickname is the “divers’ cemetery”. Divers in Dahab say 200 died in recent years. Many of those who died were attempting to swim under the arch. This challenge is to scuba divers what Kilimanjaro is to hikers.
bawQ TIL Studies have actually shown that whiskey can successfully boost your cognitive performance and reduce your chances of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
VVXm TIL that in the first-released Star Wars film, “A New Hope,” out of the 121 minutes of running time, Darth Vader was on screen for all of 12 minutes, or less than 10% of the film.
d8V0r TIL Netherlands closed 19 prisons last year due to the lack of criminals